Cast
Gregory Solomon
Dominic Chianese
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: Scratch (Archibald MacLeish); The Water Engine (David Mamet); Richard III, Cort Theatre; Oliver! (Lionel Bart); Requiem for a Heavyweight (Rod Serling). NEW YORK: Second Hand Memory, Atlantic Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Public Theater; Shakespeare in the Park. Regional: Long Wharf Theatre; Center Stage (Baltimore). EDUCATION/TRAINING: Graduate of Brooklyn College; began career with Gilbert and Sullivan Repertory in 1952; member of Ensemble Studio Theatre (NYC). FILM/TV: The Godfather II, And Justice for All; most recently Adrift in Manhattan, The Last New Yorker, When Will I Be Loved; starred in HBO's The Sopranos as Uncle Junior (David Chase).
Esther Franz
Leisa Mather
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY/ NATIONAL TOUR: Ragtime. OFF-BROADWAY: Forbidden Broadway, Falsettos, 6 Women with Brain Death. INTERNATIONAL: The Price, The Importance of Being Ernest, Cats, Under Milk Wood, Extremities. REGIONAL: The Price, Walnut Street Theatre, Theater J; The Visit, Goodman Theatre; Victor/Victoria, Harold and Maude,The King and I, Paper Mill Playhouse; A Christmas Carol, Evita, Drury Lane Theater; Uncle Vanya, Equity Library Theater; Guys and Dolls, Marriott's Lincolnshire Theater; Around the World in 80 Days, Cape May Stage; Perfect Wedding, Peninsula Players. EDUCATION: National Theater Drama School.
Victor Franz
Andy Prosky
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: King Lear. OFF BROADWAY: Titus Andronicus, Swimming With Sturgeon, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet. REGIONAL:The Price, The Walnut Street Theatre; You Can’t Take it With You, The Matchmaker, Arena Stage; Inherit the Wind, Ford’s Theatre; Front Page, Dallas Theatre Center; Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville; She Stoops to Conquer, The Delaware Theatre Company; Rounding Third, Augusta, Contemporary American Theatre Festival. FILM:Taking Woodstock, Men in Black, Mrs. Doubtfire, Up Close and Personal, The Great Outdoors. TV: ER, John Adams, Law and Order. EDUCATION: Andy holds a BFA in Acting from Rutgers University.
Walter Franz
James Sutorius
THE OLD GLOBE: The Price, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2007 Best Actor, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award); Lincolnesque (2006 Best Featured Actor in a Play, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award). BROADWAY: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard. OFF BROADWAY: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. REGIONAL: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Santa Barbara’s Grenada Theater; The Farnsworth Invention, La Jolla Playhouse; Hamlet, Cleveland Playhouse and Indiana Repertory Theatre; The Crucible, South Coast Repertory; Uncle Vanya, The Price, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Macbeth, University of Chicago Court Theatre; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stage West; The Devil’s Disciple, Arizona Theatre Company; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pasadena Playhouse; 2 Lives, George Street Playhouse; A Perfect Wedding, Kirk Douglas Theatre; A Man for All Seasons, Nevada Conservatory Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare Festival/LA; The Seagull, Matrix Theatre Company. TV: Skokie, On Wings of Eagles, A Death in Canaan, Space, Prototype, My Breast, A Question of Love, “The Andros Targets,” “CSI,” “The Unit,” “E.R.”, “The Practice,” “The X-Files,” “Ally McBeal,” “Charmed,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Quantum Leap.”
Team
Playwright
Arthur Miller
(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005) One of America's most renowned playwrights, Arthur Miller has had a number of his works adapted for the screen and has also served as a screenwriter and actor on occasion. Miller, who was born in New York City on October 17, 1915, and educated at the University of Michigan, first earned international acclaim and recognition in 1949 when his play, Death of a Salesman, won three Tony Awards® and the Pulitzer Prize. Salesman has since become one of the most popular plays in American theatre history, with numerous productions on both the stage and screen. Another of Miller's most acclaimed works, The Crucible, was adapted for the screen by Miller himself in 1996. Written in 1953 as an allegory for the Communist witch hunts that were then raging across the U.S., the play was a very resonant one for Miller, himself summoned before the House of Un-American Activities Committee in 1957 to name names (he refused, and was found guilty of contempt toward Congress). The Crucible's 1996 film adaptation earned Miller two Best Adapted Screenplay nominations, from the American and British Academies. On a more personal note, Miller also earned a certain amount of fame for his brief marriage to Marilyn Monroe, to whom he was married from 1956 to 1960.
Director
Richard Seer
is an award-winning director and actor and has directed and/or performed on Broadway, Off Broadway, on film and television, and in over 70 productions at regional theatres in this country and Great Britain, including The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Huntington Theatre Company, Washington’s Playwrights’ Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland and the Sybil Thorndike Repertory Theatre in England. He originated the role of Young Charlie in the 1978 Tony Award-winning Broadway production of Hugh Leonard’s Da and received the Theatre World Award for his performance. At The Old Globe, he has directed productions of The Price, Romeo and Juliet, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, Fiction, Blue/Orange (Critics Circle Award), All My Sons, Da and Old Wicked Songs (Patté Award). Recent directing assignments also include Third (Huntington Theatre Company) and Sonia Flew (San Jose Repertory Theatre). He received his MFA in directing from Boston University, where he was awarded the prestigious Kahn Directing Award in 1985. In 1990, he was invited to return to Boston University’s School for the Arts as an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing. Professor Seer has been Director of The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre program since 1993. In 2010, he was awarded the Craig Noel Distinguished Professorship in Graduate Theatre.
Scenic Design
Robin Sanford Roberts
THE OLD GLOBE: The Price, The Prince of L.A., Fiction, Bus Stop (Critics Circle award), Blue/ Orange (Critics Circle award: Outstanding Production), Rounding Third, Faith Healer, Betrayal (Critics Circle, Patte Award), Da, Art, God’s Man in Texas, Old Wicked Songs, Private Eyes, Collected Stories, Albee’s People, The Old Settler, Scotland Road, Miracles, Sylvia, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Voir Dire, The Substance of Fire, Uncommon Players. BROADWAY: It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. San Diego REP: Ain’t Misbehavin’, Restless Spirits, Fire on the Mountain, Working, The Merchant of Venice, Shylock, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Avenue X, It Ain’t Nothin But the Blues. REGIONAL: Splitting Infinity, This Wonderful Life, San Jose Repertory; Tuesdays with Morrie, Permanent Collection, It Ain’t Nothin but the Blues, Arizona Theatre Company; Blues in the Night, Three Tall Women, California Schemin’, Sacramento Theatre Company; Waiting for Godot, Angels in America,Parts 1 & 2, Flesh and Blood,Swine Palace Productions. EDUCATION: Ms. Roberts holds a degree in Architecture from LSU and a MFA in Scenic Design from UCSD. She currently designs and teaches in the Theatre Arts program at the University of San Diego.
Costume Design
Charlotte Devaux Shields
THE OLD GLOBE: Designer: Kingdom, Since Africa, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, A Body of Water, The Prince of L.A., I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Fiction, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Splendour, All My Sons, Betrayal, The SantaLand Diaries, Da; Resident Assistant Costume Designer: Over 35 productions including The Women, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Dancing in the Dark, A Catered Affair, The Times They Are A Changin’, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Lucky Duck, Imaginary Friends, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! and Summer Shakespeare Festival. ELSEWHERE: Miami Libre, Cuban Dance Musical, Adrienne Arscht Center for the Performing Arts (Miami), Cabaret Dances, Nyumbani Project, Trolley Dances, San Diego Dance Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Dr. Livingstone, I Presume (premiere), London; Linnaeus, Prince of Flowers, Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia (winner, Fringe First, Edinburgh Festival); also in New Zealand: Suburb, Twelfth Night, Christchurch Repertory Theatre; Hopes, Dreams and Perditions, The Court Theatre; Associate Designer of The New Zealand Christchurch Drama Theatre. FILM/TV: Costume designer, stylist and wardrobe supervisor for Television New Zealand’s live children’s programming and drama series. Designed a variety of New Zealand short films.
Lighting Design
Chris Rynne
has designed several shows for The Old Globe including Boeing-Boeing, I Do! I Do!, Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Opening Gala, The Price, Sight Unseen, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Lincolnesque (San Diego Critics Circle Award), Pig Farm, Trying, Vincent in Brixton (San Diego Critics Circle Award), The Lady with All the Answers, The Food Chain, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Knowing Cairo, Beyond Therapy, The Santaland Diaries and was the Associate Lighting Designer for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Mr. Rynne has also designed productions for The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, All in the Timing, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth and Getting Married. His other credits include San Diego Opera, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Madison Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Diversionary Theatre and Starlight Theatre.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
has designed over 85 productions at The Old Globe, including The Last Romance, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance Company, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and the Freud Theatre at UCLA. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
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.
