Cast
Elliot
Jim Abele
THE OLD GLOBE: The Pleasure of His Company. Broadway: Hedda Gabler, My Thing of Love. Off-Broadway: View of the Dome, Edith Stein, The Country Girl, Any Place but Here. Regional: The Three Musketeers, Seattle Rep; State of the Union, Ford’s Theatre; The Misanthrope, McCarter Theatre; Arcadia, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Hairy Ape, Berkeley Rep; The Tempest, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; The Three Musketeers, Indiana Repertory; The Normal Heart, Pittsburgh Public; The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Cincinnati Playhouse. TV: Guest starring and recurring roles on Dexter, Mad Men, Big Love, The West Wing, 24, Women’s Murder Club, Cold Case, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue, Crossing Jordan, Any Day Now, Judging Amy, Angel, among others.
Alan
Jeffrey M. Bender
has previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Mystery of Irma Vep and Opus. His Broadway credits include Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater and he was seen in The Acting Company’s Off Broadway production of Jane Eyre. Mr. Bender’s regional credits include The Three Musketeers, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Rivals, Life of Galileo, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Enrico IV, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and Camino Real, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; The Nerd, Delaware Theatre Company; Rounding Third and Fuddy Meers, Capital Repertory Theatre; and The Comedy of Errors, Shakespeare on the Sound.
Carl
Corey Brill
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: Doubt, Seattle Rep; Three Sisters, Chalk Rep; The Glass Menagerie, Kennedy Center; Lady Windermere’s Fan, On the Razzle, Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Bay at Nice, Hartford Stage; Gore Vidal’s On the March to the Sea, Duke University Previews; Darwin in Malibu, Falcon Theatre; The Birth of Dr. Strangelove, LA TheatreWorks; Cabaret (First National Tour), Beauty, La Jolla Playhouse; Fiddler on the Roof, North Shore Music Theatre; Charley’s Aunt , North Coast Rep. TV: CSI:Miami, Confessions of a Dog. He is a proud graduate of University of California San Diego’s MFA Acting program.
Dorian
Mark H. Dold
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: 2005 revival, Absurd Person Singular. OFF-BROADWAY: Shockheaded Peter ,The Little Shubert; Timon of Athens, Othello, The Seagull w/Meryl Streep, NY Shakespeare Festival; Race, The Winter's Tale, Classic Stage Company; Tall Grass, Samuel Beckett; Mayhem, The Lion; Comic Potential, Manhattan Theatre Club; SPF; TFNA; WPA; INTAR. REGIONAL: Mark Taper Forum, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre of DC, Long Wharf, San Jose Rep., Trinity Rep., Yale Rep., Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and six seasons with Barrington Stage Company. FILM: 3 Windows, Say You'll Be Mine, Junior Creative, Charlie's Party. TV: Recurring principle All My Children, Third Watch, Gossip Girl, Conviction, Brother Outsider (PBS), Law & Order (Original, SVU and Criminal Intent), The Progressives (miniseries), Novel Reflections (pilot). EDUCATION: BFA, Boston University; MFA, The Yale School of Drama.
Grace
Katie Sigismund
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. THEATRE: The Recruiting Officer, New York Classical Theatre; F**King A, A Streetcar Named Desire, Paris Commune, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Eurydice, The Seagull, Balm in Gilead, La Jolla Playhouse/UCSD; A Candle for the Last, Los Angeles Holocaust Museum; The Seagull, The Scottish Play, California Shakespeare Festival; The Lover, Quartet, Stanford University. FILM: Taking of Pelham 123, Confessions of a Shopaholic, No Reservations, Leverage. TV: Law & Order, Guiding Light. EDUCATION: MFA, UCSD Professional Actor Training Program; BA, Stanford University.
Team
Playwright
Michael Hollinger
Michael Hollinger is the author of Opus, Tooth and Claw, Red Herring, Tiny Island, Incorruptible, and An Empty Plate in the Cafe Du Grand Boeuf, all of which premiered at Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company and have since enjoyed productions around the country, off-Broadway, in London, and in translation in Europe. Awards include a Steinberg/ATCA New Play Citation, a Roger L. Stevens Award, two Barrymore Awards, a Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award, the Frederick Loewe Award for Musical Theatre, and fellowships from the Independence Foundation, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Michael is an alumnus of New Dramatists and Assistant Professor of Theatre at Villanova University.
Director
Kyle Donnelly
THE OLD GLOBE: Orson's Shadow, A Midsummer Night's Dream. NEW YORK: Give Me Your Answer, Do!, Roundabout Theatre. REGIONAL: The Three Musketeers, Seattle Rep; The Constant Wife, ACT/Seattle Rep; Philadelphia, Here I Come, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Molly Sweeney, Steppenwolf/Arena Stage; State of the Union, Ford's Theatre; Ah, Wilderness!, Little Foxes, Aristrocrats, Huntington Theatre; Well, Tom Walker, Blithe Spirit, Summer and Smoke, She Loves Me, Born Yesterday, A Month in the Country, The Plough and the Stars, The Women, Misalliance,Lovers and Executioners, The Miser, The School for Wives, Arena Stage; Polk County, Arena Stage/McCarter Theatre/Berkeley Rep and winner of Helen Hayes Award for Best Original Musical; Dancing at Lughnasa, Goodman/Arena Stage and winner of Helen Hayes Award for Best Production, Head of the Professional Actor Training Program at UC San Diego.
Scenic Design
Kate Edmunds
Kate Edmunds has designed productions at Berkeley Rep, including Endgame, Homebody/Kabul, Heartbreak House, The Lady from the Sea, The Revenger, Slavs!, and Twelfth Night. She has also worked at American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, and TheatreWorks, and her regional experience includes Alliance Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, CenterStage, the Goodman, the Huntington Theater Company, Seattle Rep, and Steppenwolf Theatre Company. After teaching design at UC Berkeley for 13 years, she now teaches at UC Santa Cruz.
Costume Design
Denitsa D. Bliznakova
is happy to return to The Old Globe theatre where she has previously designed The Merry Wives of Windsor and Opus. Her design work elsewhere includes productions at The Falcon Theatre, A Noise Within, New Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre
Festival and others. Her previous work also includes touring shows for the Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theatre Program and projects for the Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera and the Law & Order TV show. Her design and stylist credits for other media include music videos for Switchfoot, Bigg Steele, John Mayer; short films: Midgetman, Sleep in Heavenly Peace and La Cerca; feature films Johnny Got His Gun and Undercover
Kids. Ms. Bliznakova is currently an Assistant Professor at San Diego State University where she leads the MFA Costume Design program. For more information visit www.denitsa.com
Lighting Design
York Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy’s designs have been seen in theaters across America and in Europe including Berkeley Rep, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Rep, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Musicals and the Denver Center. He has designed over thirty productions for The Old Globe and this summer marks his sixth season as resident lighting designer for the Shakespeare Festival. Awards for theatrical lighting design include the Dramalogue, San Diego Critics Circle, Back Stage West Garland, Arizoni Theatre Award and the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In the dance world he has designed for Malashock Dance, Brian Webb and Tracey Rhodes. As an architectural lighting designer he has designed both nationally and internationally numerous themed environments, theme park, residential, retail, restaurant and museum projects including the Sony Metreon Sendak Playspace in San Francisco, Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Le Centre de Loisirs in Morocco and The LEGO Racers 4D attraction in Germany, Denmark, England and the U.S.A. He is a graduate of the California Institute for the Arts and the Yale School of Drama.
Sound Design
Lindsay Jones
The Old Globe: The Glass Menagerie, In This Corner, Oscar and the Pink Lady, Lincolnesque, Sky Girls, Much Ado About Nothing, Beyond Therapy. Off-Broadway: The world premiere of Sam Shepard’s The God of Hell, Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams, In the Continuum, Luminescence Dating, O Jerusalem, Beautiful Thing and Closet Land. Regional: Center Stage, American Conservatory Theatre, Hartford Stage, South Coast Rep, Alliance Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville, Chicago Shakespeare, Pasadena Playhouse, Steppenwolf, as well as many others. International credits: productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland and The Royal Shakespeare Company of England. Lindsay has received four Joseph Jefferson Awards and thirteen nominations, an Ovation Award, two ASCAP Plus Awards, nominations for a Barrymore Award, NAACP Theatre Award, Connecticut Critics Award and Austin Critics Table Award, and was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. Recent film/tv scoring work include the pilot for Family Practice for Sony Pictures/ Lifetime Television and A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award winner, Best Short Documentary) for HBO Films.
Stage Manager
Diana Moser
recently stage managed The Whipping Man at The Old Globe. Her additional credits at the Globe include Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Price, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, The Glass Menagerie, In This Corner, 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, Christmas on Mars, A Body of Water, Lobby Hero, Fiction and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Ms. Moser’s regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis and Arizona Theatre Company. Ms. Moser received her MFA in directing from Purdue University. When not doing theatre, she splits her time between Nova Scotia and the classic wooden sailboat, Simba I.
