Cast
Miriam Aarons/Princess Tamara
Nancy Anderson
The Old Globe: Debut. BROAD-WAY/TOURS & WEST END: Won-derful Town, Kiss Me, Kate (2002 Olivier Award nomination and Helen Hayes Award nomination), A Class Act, Dr. Doolittle. OFF-BROADWAY and REGIONAL: Burleigh Grimes, New World Stages; Fanny Hill (2006 Drama Desk nomination), The York Theatre; A Class Act, Manhattan Theatre Club; Jolson & Co. (2000 Drama Desk nomination), Century Center/York Theatre; Day in Hollywood/Night in the Ukraine, Sylvia, Cape Playhouse; She Loves Me, Paper Mill Playhouse; The Black Monk, Yale Rep; Streets of New York, Chasing Nicolette, Westport Country Playhouse; Dorian, Fanny Hill, Goodspeed-at-Chester; Crazy for You, Secret Garden, Pioneer Theatre Co; By Jeeves, Kennedy Center/Goodspeed Opera; Sweeney Todd, Goodspeed Opera House. Concerts: Carnegie Hall with Michael Feinstein, Atlanta Symphony, JVC Jazz Festival with Vince Giordano's Nighthawks, appears regularly at Birdland in NYC with Ross Patterson and his Little Big Band. Debut Album: Ten Cents A Dance, available at CDbaby.com or www.nancyanderson.name. FILM/TV: South Pacific w/Reba, Kiss Me, Kate, Broadway: The American Musical.
Sylvia Fowler
Heather Ayers
The Old Globe: The Women, Ace. BROADWAY:
Megan Mullally's understudy In Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein. Off Broadway: Five Course Love; Sarah, Plain and Tall; Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back; four City Center Encores! productions. Regional: The Last Five Years (Cathy), Cincinnati Playhouse; Guys and Dolls (Sarah), Dallas Theatre Center; Cyrano (Roxane), Barrington Stage; Songs for a New World, George Street Playhouse, among others. Tv: “Lights Out,” “Z Rock.” Recordings: Young Frankenstein, Five Course Love, Face the Music. www.heatherayers.com
Mary Haines
Kate Baldwin
The Old Globe: Debut. Broad-way: The Full Monty, Thoroughly Modern Millie (original cast), Wonderful Town. Tour: Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. NEW YORK: Stephen Sondheim’s Opening Doors, Zankel Hall, four appearances at City Center Encores!. Regional: Henry V, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; South Pacific (Helen Hayes Award nomination), Arena Stage; She Loves Me, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Hello Dolly!, Miss Saigon, Guys and Dolls, Paper Mill Playhouse; A Little Night Music, Center Stage; The Three Musketeers (IRNE nomination), NSMT; The Sound of Music (Kline nomination), The Pajama Game (Kline nomination), Muny; Passion, Wilma; The Last Five Years, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; 1776, Ford’s; Finian’s Rainbow (Jefferson nomination), Marriott’s Lincoln-shire. Concerts: Chicago Humanities Festival, NSO, PSO and the American Songbook Series. PBS: “Live from Lincoln Center: Stephen Sondheim’s Passion.” Recording: Wall to Wall Sondheim. EDUCATION: Northwestern University.
Mrs. Morehead
Linda Gehringer
THE OLD GLOBE: The Women. REGIONAL: Hamlet, Doubt, The Piano Teacher, Retreat from Moscow, Relatively Speaking, Getting Frankie Married, Hold Please, A Delicate Balance, All My Sons, But Not for Me, As Good as New, South Coast Rep; Picnic, Center Stage; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Atlantic Theatre Company; Be Aggressive (world premiere), Light up the Sky, La Jolla Playhouse; The Poison Tree, Be Aggressive, Mark Taper Forum; The Batting Cage, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Breaking and Entering, New York Stage and Film; Arcadia, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Little Foxes, Huntington Theatre; The Waiting Room, Arena Stage; The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas; A Streetcar Named Desire, All the King’s Men, Temptation, The Three Sisters, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others, Dallas Theater Center. FILM: The Last Producer, As Good as It Gets, American Pie, Dead Man on Campus, Ninth Life. TV: Weeds, Women’s Murder Club, Cold Case, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Frasier, Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, Evening Shade.
1st Hairdresser/1st Saleswoman/Maggie/Lucy/Sadie
Mary-Pat Green
The Old Globe: Debut. BROADWAY: Sweeney Todd (original cast), Candide (original cast, revival). OFF- BROADWAY: Nunsense, Marcy in the Galaxy. REGIONAL: Juno and the Paycock, B Street, Sacramento; First Lady Suite, Blank Theatre Co, L.A.; Annie 2, Kennedy Center, Hannah Free, Victory Gardens, Chicago; Bye Bye Birdie, North Shore Music Theatre; It Happened in Little Rock, Arkansas Rep; Putting It Together, San Francisco Playhouse; Annie, Starlight Theatre, Kansas City. FILM: The Breakup, In Her Shoes, xXx, Yes Man (Dec. 2008), My Best Friend’s Wedding, Twin Falls, Idaho. TELEVISION: Recurring – West Wing, Ally McBeal, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue, Any Day Now, The Drew Carey Show, Married…With Children. Guest Star – Eli Stone, My Name is Earl, Cold Case, Desperate Housewives, Charmed, Millenium, ER, Friends.
Olga/1st Model/Miss Trimmerback/1st Cutie
Jenn Harris
The Old Globe: Debut. Off-Broadway: New Jerusalem, Modern Orthodox (Lucille Lortel Award and Theatre World Awards), Mercy on the Doorstep, Ashley Montana Goes Ashore to the Caicos. Berkshire Theatre Festival: Pageant Play, The Heidi Chronicles, Williamstown: Blithe Spirit, God of Vengeance, The Winter’s Tale, Street Scene, Up Ubu. NEW YORK: Silence! The Musical, The Plank Project, My Deah, Pains of Youth, The Dispute, The Dilemma of Drugs, Sex*But. Film: Confessions of a Shopaholic (upcoming), A Plague of Tics (Cannes Film Festival ’03; Best Short Comedy NY Indi. Film Festival). TV: Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light. EDUCATION/TRAINING: Boston University School for the Arts, L.A.M.D.A., The Second City (Chicago).
Edith Potter
Amy Hohn
The Old Globe: Debut. BROADWAY: November, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. OFF BROADWAY: A Few Stout Individuals, Signature Theatre; The Country Club and June Moon, Drama Dept; Dream True, Vineyard Theatre; The Stand-In, Naked Angels; All Things Considered, Atlantic Theatre. REGIONAL: McCarter Theater, O’Neill Playwrights Festival, Papermill Playhouse, Syracuse Stage, New Jersey Shakespeare, Hudson Theatre (Los Angeles). TV: The Return of Jezebel James, Law & Order (also SVU & Criminal Intent), Ed, 3 lbs., Spin City.FILM: War of the Worlds, Hitch, Meet the Parents, Along Came Polly, College Road Trip, Breathing Room, The Impostors.
Jane/2nd Model/Debutante
Aaryn Kopp
The Old Globe: Aaryn is thrilled to be making her Old Globe debut in The Women. regional: The Pillowman, Wilma Theatre; Julius Caesar, New Village Arts Theatre; Twelfth Night, Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre; Swimming in the Shallows, Philadelphia Theatre Workshop. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: Ms. Kopp received a BFA in acting from West Virginia University and a certificate in acting from the Moscow Art Theatre at ART/Harvard University.
Peggy Day
Amanda Kramer
The Old Globe: Debut. Amanda is thrilled to be part of this production of The Women. REGIONAL: Oklahoma!, Little Shop of Horrors, The Music Man. Education: Amanda is a senior at UC Irvine, working towards her BA in Drama.
Crystal Allen
Kathleen McElfresh
The Old Globe: Debut.OFF-BROADWAY: The Frugal Repast, Abingdon Theatre. Regional: Brendan, Huntington Theatre Company; Pride and Prejudice, Dallas Theater Center; Steel Magnolias, Theatre Southeast. Edinburgh Fringe Festival: The Jammer, (Winner of Fringe First). Education: MFA, Yale School of Drama. Recipient of the Rebecca West Scholarship and Herschel Williams Acting Award.
Nancy Blake
Amanda Naughton
THE OLD GLOBE: Paramour, Loves and Hours, The Constant Wife. BROADWAY: The Secret Garden (and National Tour), Into The Woods (2002 revival). OFF-BROADWAY: Romance in Hard Times, Hundreds of Hats, 3 Postcards, Mr. President. REGIONAL: A Little Night Music, Goodspeed Musicals, L.A. Opera and South Coast Rep; Amour, O. Henry's Lovers, Goodspeed Musicals; On the Town, PCLO; Gypsy, Tartuffe, The Waves, Misalliance, Bedroom Farce, The Threepenny Opera, Hangar Theatre; The Royal Family, Caldwell Theatre; The Betrayal of Nora Blake, Cuillo Center; Another Kind of Hero, Walnut St.; Edith Stein, GeVa. TELEVISION: Betty Roberts on AMC's Remember WENN, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: SVU, Payne, Chappelle's Show. EDUCATION: BFA, Ithaca College.
Pedicurist/Fitter/Exercise Instructress/Helene/2nd Cutie
Aimee Nelson
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. ELSEWHERE: Anton in Show Business, 6th at Penn; The Good Doctor, The Shape of Things, Carlsbad Play-readers; The O’Connor Girls, Scripps Ranch Theatre; Hay Fever, Bedroom Farce, Moonlight Stage Productions; The Tin Soldier, North Coast Rep; Lysistrata, Dancing at Lughnasa, Our Town, Steel Magnolias, Smothers Theatre Productions; Talking With, The Curious Savage, Thirteen Past Midnight, Littleton Community Theatre. FILM/TV: American Dreams, Off Centre, That 70s Show, The Geena Davis Show, Opposite Sex Pilot, Three Ninjas, TV3, Wam!
2nd Hairdresser/2nd Saleswoman/Miss Watts/Nurse/Dowager
Blair Ross
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROAD-WAY: 42nd Street (and National Tour) OFF-BROAD-WAY: Exactly Like You, Hysterical Blind- ness, Smoke on the Mountain, Berlin to Broadway, etc. REGIONAL: CenterStage, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Cincinnati Playhouse, Goodspeed Opera, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Ford's, Walnut Street, Denver Center, McCarter Theatre, St. Louis MUNY, etc. WRITER: The History, Discovery and Travel Channels (story producer) as well as the upcoming musical Touché with composer Randy Redd. EDUCATION: BA, Vassar College. Many thanks to Darko and, as always, love to George Clooney.
Little Mary
Kayla Solsbak
THE OLD GLOBE: The Women, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’07). Else-where: Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Really Rosie, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan, My Emperor’s New Clothes, Ramona “The Pest” Quimby, San Diego Junior Theatre; Seussical the Musical, Performing Lakeside Acting Youth; It’s a Wonderful Life, FC Players. Kayla is 11 and a 7th grader at Lakeside Middle School. Outside theatre she enjoys being a Girl Scout, writing and playing the violin with her school orchestra.
Countess de Lage
Ruth Williamson
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROAD-WAY: La Cage aux Folles, The Music Man (Outer Critics nomination), Epic Proportions, Little Me, Guys and Dolls, Smile, Annie. OFF-BROADWAY: The Green Heart (Drama Desk nomination), Manhattan Theatre Club; The Good Times Are Killing Me, Minetta Lane Theatre. REGIONAL: Reprise!, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, O’Neill Theatre Conference, Paper Mill Playhouse, Burt Reynolds Theate, Goodspeed Opera House, Barter Theatre. FILM: Evan Almighty, The Producers, Legally Blonde 2, Easy Six, Family Man, Psycho Beach Party, Foreign Student, Malcolm X. TV: Nip/Tuck, Medium, Hannah Montana, The O.C., Star Trek: Enterprise, The Practice, ER, Law & Order.
Team
Playwright
Clare Boothe Luce
Clare Boothe Luce was a playwright, editor, social activist, congresswoman, journalist, and ambassador. A prominent figure in New York society circles, Luce was known for her skill with satire and understatement, as well as her charm, which she displayed with such oft-quoted aphorisms as “No good deed goes unpunished.” Her first play, Abide with Me, a psychological drama about an abusive husband and his terrified wife, opened on Broadway in 1935. The Women was immensely popular with the public, ran for 657 performances and was adapted for the screen by MGM in 1939. Her other works include Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Margin of Error, Child of the Morning and Slam the Door Softly. In 1949, she wrote the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for Come to the Stable and in 1952, she edited the book Saints for Now, a compilation of essays about various saints written by various well-known authors including Evelyn Waugh, Bruce Marshall and Rebecca West.
Director
Darko Tresnjak
THE OLD GLOBE: The Women, The Pleasure of His Company, All’s Well That Ends Well, Bell, Book and Candle, Hamlet, Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Titus Andronicus. ELSEWHERE: The Merchant of Venice, Royal Shakespeare Company, Theatre for a New Audience; All's Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, Theatre for a New Audience; The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Public Theater; Princess Turandot, Hotel Universe, Blue Light Theater Company; More Lies About Jerzy, Vineyard Theatre Company; The Skin of Our Teeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, The Winter's Tale, Under Milk Wood, Moving Picture, The Blue Demon, Princess Turandot, The Love of Three Oranges, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Heartbreak House, What the Butler Saw, Amphityron, The Blue Demon, Huntington Theatre; Hay Fever, Princess Turandot, Westport Country Playhouse; A Little Night Music, Amour, Goodspeed Musicals; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Long Wharf Theatre; and The Two Noble Kinsmen, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. OPERA: Der zerbrochene Krug, Der Zwerg and Die Voegel, Los Angeles Opera; and the American premiere of Rimsky-Korsakov’s May Night, Sarasota Opera.
Scenic Design
David P. Gordon
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. New York: All’s Well That End’s Well, Theatre for a New Audience; Happy Days, CSC; The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Public Theater; String Fever, EST; Cheat, Two-Headed, Women’s Project; Hotel Universe, Princess Turandot, Blue Light Theatre Co.; Hard Times, Pearl. Regional: The Blue Demon, What the Butler Saw, Huntington Theatre; Amour, A Little Night Music, Goodspeed Musicals; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Long Wharf; The Skin of Our Teeth, The Winter’s Tale, Williamstown Theatre Festival; The Two Noble Kinsmen, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; Dear Brutus, David Copperfield, Westport Country Playhouse; Ying Tong, Wilma Theater; Assassins, Arden Theatre Co.; Portia Coughlan, McCarter Theatre; Andromeda Shack, Kennedy Center; Wanut St. Theatre; Philadelphia Theatre Co, Delaware Theatre Co; State New Experimental Theatre, Volgograd, Russia. Opera: The Birds (upcoming), LA Opera; The Consul, Arizona Opera; The Magic Flute, Opera Theatre of St. Louis; Summer, Berkshire Opera Co; Bastien & Bastienne, Lincoln Center; and 22 productions for Sarasota Opera. Awards: Three Barrymore Awards; 2003 Elliot Norton Award; Barrymore, IRNE, Carbonell, and Connecticut Critics Circle Award nominations. Education: NYU. Faculty: Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Costume Design
Anna R. Oliver
THE OLD GLOBE: The Women, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Magic Fire, Don Juan, Misalliance. Elsewhere: Her work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse in Fraulein Else and at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre (The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Heartbreak House, The Pillowman, Fraulein Else, The Magic Fire, and Missing Persons), ACT (The Constant Wife, The House of Mirth, and The Guardsman), California Shakespeare Festival (Man and Superman, Restoration Comedy, Nicholas Nickelby and The Skin of Our Teeth), The Aurora (The Trojan Women, Saint Joan, Dear Master, among others), and at San Jose Repertory Theatre (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Iphigenia in Aulis and Major Barbara). National/ international: Shakespeare Theatre in DC, Seattle Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Arizona Theatre Co, Dallas Theater Center, Brava!, BAM, San Francisco Opera, NY City Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Canadian Opera Company, Dallas Opera, Florida Grand Opera, and Los Angeles Opera. She is the recipient of a 2006 Helen Hayes nomination for Best Costumes (Don Juan), Garland Award, San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel Awards”, and numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and Dean Goodman Awards.
Lighting Design
Matthew Richards
Mr. Richards recently designed several productions for The Old Globe including The Violet Hour, Bell Book and Candle and The Women. His New York credits include Port Authority, Atlantic Theater Company; The Drunken
City and Pen, Playwrights Horizons; Grace, MCC; Len, Asleep in Vinyl, Second Stage Theatre; Seussical
and Click!, Clack!, Moo!, TheatreworksUSA; A Small Melodramatic Story, The Public Theater/LAByrinth Theatre Company; One Loss Plus, BAM Next Wave Festival; ARS Nova, Edge Theater Company, Katharsis Theater Company and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. His regional credits include CENTERSTAGE,
Bay Street Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, The Hangar Theatre, TheaterWorks Hartford, Huntington Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, The Repertory Theater of St. Louis, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Skylight Opera Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Wolf Trap Opera Company and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mr. Richards
is a graduate of The University
of Massachusetts and The Yale School of Drama. www.matthewrichardsdesign.com.
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.
Music Director
Ron Colvard
THE OLD GLOBE: Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Women, Dancing in the Dark (Associate Conductor). Ron’s work spans all genres of music as a singer, pianist, arranger and orchestrator from stage to film and television. As a musical director, Ron has conducted staged events across the United States, Canada, Asia and Europe. NATIONAL TOURS: Assistant Conductor for the National Tour of the Tony Award®-winning Broadway musical Hairspray. He has also played Wicked, Jersey Boys; Avenue Q; A Chorus Line, Movin’ Out, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Norbert Leo Butz, and The King and I starring Stephanie Powers. REGIONAL: A Chorus Line, Chicago, Into the Woods, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Sophisticated Ladies, Once on this Island, Man of La Mancha. Ron is a 7-time ariZoni Award nominee and winner for Best Musical Direction for Chicago and Into the Woods. There’s more to see and hear at www.roncolvard.com.
Stage Manager
Bret Torbeck
THE OLD GLOBE: The Sisters Rosensweig, Take Me Out. REGIONAL: 5th Avenue Theatre; Ordway Center; Seattle Rep (eight seasons including Doubt, Restoration Comedy, The Time of Your Life, Topdog/Underdog, The Triumph of Love, In Real Life, Wit); Long Wharf, Arizona Theatre Company, Kansas City Rep, Portland Center Stage, American Conservatory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, Pittsburgh Public, San Jose Rep, Berkeley Rep and Seattle’s ACT Theatre. NATIONAL TOURS: Proof, Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera. EDUCATION: BFA from Carnegie Mellon. Thank you to the team of Jinny, Sarah, and Jacob.
Assistant Stage Manager
Jinny Parron
THE OLD GLOBE: The Pleasure of His Company, Beethoven As I Knew Him, A Catered Affair, George Gershwin Alone, The Sisters Rosensweig. REGIONAL: 33 Variations, The Deception. EDUCATION: Ms. Parron received an MFA in Stage Management from the University of California, San Diego. Proud member of AEA.
Casting By
Jay Binder Casting
Jay Binder, CSA/Sara Schatz (Casting) Jack Bowdan, CSA, Mark Brandon & Nikole Vallins have cast over 70 Broadway shows including A Chorus Line, Gypsy, The Thirty Nine Steps, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Story Of My Life, Is He Dead?, Inherit The Wind, Journey’s End, Butley, Virginia Woolf, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Movin’ Out, 42nd Street, Music Man, Iceman Cometh, Charlie Brown, Sound of Music, Lion King, Beauty & the Beast, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Chicago, King and I, Damn Yankees, Lost in Yonkers, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, Goodbye Girl. Film: Hairspray, Dreamgirls, Chicago, upcoming Nine. Eight–time Artios Award winner. They are thrilled to return to The Old Globe.
