William Inge (Playwright) was born on May 3, 1913 in Independence, Kansas. He got his first taste of the theatre an early age, watching touring shows from the balcony of the local civic center after Boy Scout meetings. Inge graduated from the University of Kanses at Lawrence and the George Peabody College for Teachers before moving to St. Louis, MI where he served as the drama and music critic for the St. Louis Time. An encounter with Tennessee Williams inspired him to try his hand as a playwright. His plays include Farther Off from Heaven, Come Back, Little Sheba (which earned him the title of "most promising playwright of the 1950 Broadway season,"), the Pulitzer Prize-winning Picnic, Bus Stop (which he would later adapt into a popular film starring Marilyn Monroe), The Dark at the Top of the Stairs, A Loss of Roses, Natural Affection, Where's Daddy, and The Last Pad. His screenplay for Splendor in the Grass earned him an Academy Award. Inge died on June 10, 1973.

Nicholas Martin (Director) served as artistic director of the Huntington from 2000 through 2008, where he directed The Corn Is Green, She Loves Me, Present Laughter, Persephone, The Cherry Orchard, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Sisters Rosensweig (IRNE Award, Best Director), Laughing Wild, The Rivals (IRNE Award, Best Director), Sonia Flew (IRNE Awards, Best Play and Best Director), The Rose Tattooo, Butley, Springtime for Henry, A Month in the Country, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Elliot Norton Award, Best Director), Hedda Gabler, Fully Committed, and Dead End. Broadway credits include Present Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, and The Rehearsal. Off Broadway credits include Why Torture is Wrong, and The People Who Love Them (The Public Theater); Saturn Returns, The New Century, Observe the Sons of Ulster . . . (Drama Desk Award nomination), The Time of the Cuckoo, and Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater); Fully Committed (Vineyard Theatre and Cherry Lane Theatre); Full Gallop (Manhattan Theatre Club and West Side Arts); You Never Can Tell (Roundabout Theatre Company); Betty’s Summer Vacation (OBIE Award, Drama Desk Award nomination) and Sophistry (Playwrights Horizons); and Bosoms and Neglect (Signature Theatre). Regional credits include The House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum); Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre); Macbeth (The Old Globe), and the West Coast and London productions of Full Gallop. Mr. Martin is the artistic director of Williamstown Theatre Festival where his directing credits include Knickerbocker, She Loves Me, The Corn Is Green, Where’s Charley?, Camino Real, Dead End, and The Royal Family among others.

Miranda Hoffman (Costume Designer) previously designed A Civil War Christmas, Well, and Mauritius for the Huntington. She also designed the Broadway production of Well. Her New York credits include Stunning (Lincoln Center Theater); Beauty of the Father (Manhattan Theatre Club); Satellites and Well (The Public Theater); Essential Self Defense, Spatter Pattern, and She Stoops to Comedy (Playwrights Horizons); Landscape of the Body (Signature Theatre); and Othello (Theatre for a New Audience) among others. Regional credits include Twelfth Night and Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare Theatre Company), She Loves Me (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and productions for the American Repertory Theater, McCarter Theatre, and Glimmerglass Opera, among others. She is a Lucille Lortel, Helen Hayes, and American Theatre Wing Award nominee and a NEA/TCG grant recipient.

Philip Rosenberg (Lighting Designer) previously designed She Loves Me for the Huntington. He served as the associate lighting designer on numerous Broadway productions including A Steady Rain, 9 to 5, Shrek, Spelling Bee, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Spamalot, Bombay Dreams, The Graduate, Hairspray, The Crucible, 42nd Street, The Rocky Horror Show, On the Town, and Triumph of Love. Other credits include I Do, I Do (Westport Country Playhouse); Sweeney Todd (Barrington Stage Company); Bach at Leipzig (Portland Stage); The Lisbon Traviata (The Kennedy Center); The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, Edward II, Amadeus, and Cymbeline (Chicago Shakespeare Theater); Knickerbocker (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Shanghai Moon and The Lady in Question (Bay Street Theatre); and Bury the Dead (Illinois State University).

Alex Neumann (Sound Designer) previously designed The Athiest for the Huntington. On Broadway, he assisted on Next Fall with John Gromada and contributed to A Behanding in Spokane. Off Broadway, he composed music for the new play Daddy. At Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mr. Neumann designed Knickerbocker, The Torchbearers, and It's Jewdy's Show. He has worked previously as the sound department supervisor at Williamstown Theatre Festival and at The Santa Fe Opera, Tanglewood, and Barrington Stage Company. Mr. Neumann holds a B.A. in music from SUNY Potsdam and an M.F.A. in sound designed from Boston University. soundsneu.com.

Stephen Lee Anderson(Virgil Blessing) makes his Huntington debut. His Broadway credits include Julius Caesar, Wicked, Fiddler On The Roof, Life (X) 3, The Crucible, The Adventures of
Tom Sawyer, Footloose and the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Kentucky Cycle. Off Broadway credits include Violet and Floyd Collins(Playwrights Horizons), and productions at Atlantic Theatre Company, Vineyard Theatre, and Manhattan Theatre Company. He has performed regionally at Signature Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, The Kennedy Center, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and seven seasons at The Denver Center Theatre Company. Film and television credits include The Treatment, “Law & Order,” “Autopsy V” (HBO) and “One Life To Live.” Mr. Anderson received his graduate training at Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, London and received his M.F.A. from The National Theatre Conservatory, Denver.  

Noah Bean (Bo) previously appeared at the Huntington in Love’s Labour’s Lost. His New York credits include Yellow Face (Public Theater) Mary Rose (Vineyard); Voyage Of The Carcass (SOHO Playhouse); The Map Maker’s Sorrow, Kid-Simple (SPF); Amerika (NYC Fringe); Crazy Jane On God, Moonchildren (HERE). Regional: Romance (Mark Taper Forum); Philadelphia Here I Come, The Winter’s Tale, Tis Pity She’s A Whore (Williamstown); Our Town (Bay Street). Television: series regular on FX’s Damages (Golden Globe and Emmy nominations, Best Drama), Dark Blue, Cold Case, ...Sunny in Philadelphia, Private Practice, Medium, Fringe, among many others. Film: Stay (dir. Marc Forster), Peter and Vandy and the upcoming Morning Glory, Little Murder and The Pill. Graduate of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. 

Will LeBow (Carl) Huntington credits include How Shakespeare Won the West, 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 appeared in more than fifty productions including The Merchant of Venice, Romance, Endgame, Copenhagen, Donnie Darko, A Marvelous Party!, Romeo and Juliet, No Exit, Three Sisters, The Miser, Marat/Sade, 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 world premieres of Polar Express, A Christmas Carol, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His film and television credits include Next Stop Wonderland, What Doesn't Kill You, and six seasons as “Stanley” on the Cable Ace Award winning animated series “Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist.”

Adam LeFevre (Will Masters) appeared on Broadway in revivals of The Devil’s Disciple, Summer and Smoke, and the 2009 production of Guys and Dolls, as well as the American premiere of Our Country’s Good, and the original Broadway productions of Footloose, the Musical and Mamma Mia. Off Broadway: The View from Here and The Boys Next Door (Lambs Theater), and Henry V and Goose and Tomtom (NYSF). Regionally: Hartford Stage, Yale Rep, Long Wharf, Capital Rep, The Alley Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville in plays ranging from Shakespeare and Moliere to Alan Ayckbourn and Beth Henley. Over 70 films including Return of the Seacaucus 7, The Ref, Fool’s Gold, and more recently She’s Out of My League, The Scientist, and as Karl Rove in Doug Liman’s Fair Game. T.V.: mini-series, I’ll Take Manhattan, Storm of the Century, and for HBO Empire Falls and Recount, as well as guest starring in numerous episodics.

Ronete Levenson (Elma) has recently appeared Off Broadway in Lascivious Something (Women's Project/Cherry Lane Theatre), directed by Daniella Topol; Our Town (Barrow Street Theater) directed by David Cromer; What Once We Felt (Lincoln Center Theater) directed by Ken Rus Schmoll; Origin Story (The Public) directed by Hal Brooks; and Stunning (New York Theater Workshop). Regionally she appeared in Argonautika directed by Mary Zimmerman (Berkeley Rep, Shakespeare Theater of DC, McCarter). In Television and Film Ronete has been on Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Guiding Light, Possible Side Effects (pilot) directed by Tim Robbins (Showtime) and Taking Woodstock directed by Ang Lee.  Ronete composes music and plays guitar. She received her B.A. in Environmental Science from Bard College.

Karen MacDonald (Grace) most recently appeared at the Huntington Theatre Company as Kate Keller in All My Sons and as Mary Todd Lincoln in A Civil War Christmas. A founding member of the American Repertory Theatre, she has appeared in seventy productions, last seen as Arkadina in The Seagull and Nell in Endgame. Nationally Ms MacDonald has worked coast to coast from Philadelphia’s Wilma Theatre to Berkeley Rep. Other local credits include The Blonde, the Brunette and the Vengeful Redhead at Merrimack Rep, boom at New Repertory Theatre, Last of the Red Hot Lovers at Gloucester Stage Co., Hamlet and Twelfth Night at Commonwealth Shakespeare Co. and Infestation and My Heart and my Flesh at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Regional appearances include Vineyard Playhouse, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theatre, Hartford Stage and Portland Stage.  Her directing credits include An Ideal Husband, The Woman in Black at Gloucester Stage Co., Dressed Up! Wigged Out! and Surly Girl at Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Television and film credits include Law & Order, Orphan, The Crucible and What’s the Worst that Can Happen? A veteran improviser, she was a member of the Proposition and the Next Move Theatre. She has been a nominee and the recipient of several Eliot Norton and IRNE Awards for her performances and received this year’s Robert Brustein Award for Sustained Achievement in the Theatre and The Eliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence. She graduated from Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.

Nicole Rodenburg (Cherie) is excited to make her Huntington debut.  She played in the world premieres of Allison Moore's Slasher! (Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theater of Louisville) and Sheri Wilner's The End (Guthrie Theater).  Favorite regional credits include Lisa Loomer's Distracted (Mixed Blood Theater) and The Tempest, Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, Julius Caesar and The Merchant of Venice (Great River Shakespeare Festival).  She earned her BFA from the University of Minnesota’s Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program and studied at the Globe Theater in London.

Henry Stram (Dr. Gerald Lyman), making his Huntington debut, has appeared on Broadway in Inherit the Wind, The Crucible, Titanic as well as in the First National Tour of Spring Awakening.  Off-Broadway credits include: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (NYTW/The Acting Company), Rag and Bone (Rattlestick), See What I Wanna See and A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theatre), The Mind King and Eddie Goes to Poetry City (Ontological). TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: CI, Enterprise and Kingpin.  FILM: Cradle Will Rock, The Grey Zone and Illuminata.  Henry is a graduate of The Juilliard School and the recipient of a 1996 OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.