Cast
Dr. Fine
James Eckhouse
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Beyond Therapy. OFF-BROADWAY: Emily, Geniuses, Rise and Rise of Daniel Rocket, Soapy Smith, Dubliners. REGIONAL: Mother Courage, La Jolla Playhouse; The Goat, Mark Taper; Heads, Blank Theater; Downside, Pasadena Playhouse. Also Williamstown, Louisville, Guthrie, Hartford, Portland Stage, Goodman. FILM: Love at First Hiccup, Wake (2009 releases), Half-Life (2008 Sundance premiere), Jimmy and Judy, S.W.A.T., A Cinderella Story, One True Thing, 84 Charing Cross Road, Junior, Defending Your Life, Leaving Normal, Fat Man and Little Boy, Big, Trading Places. TV: Jim Walsh on Beverly Hills 90210, recent guest spots Criminal Minds, Boston Legal, Las Vegas, Nip/Tuck, Jericho, CSI, Without A Trace DIRECTOR -STAGE (LA): In Heat, Bright Boy, Cats and Dogs (World Premieres), A Raisin In The Sun, American Buffalo, Eastern Standard. Artistic Director -Ensemble Studio Theater LA ’99-‘01. TV: Once and Again, 90210, Enos and Emory (Pilot Presentation). DOCUMENTARY: Protecting The Possibilities. TRAINING: Juilliard, Second City.
Tess
Vivia Font
THE OLD GLOBE: Six Degrees of Separation, 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/ USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: The Greeks:The Murders, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Uncle Vanya, Pericles, Stuff Happens. NEW YORK: The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Columbia Stages; La Tempestad, Ohio Theatre; Love’s Labour’s Lost, Tribeca Playhouse. REGIONAL: Twelfth Night, Princeton Repertory; The Shrew Tamer, Northern Stage; New Kid, George Street Playhouse; The House of Bernarda Alba, McCarter Theatre. FILM: Sarbanes Oxley. TV: One Life to Live. EDUCATION: BFA, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Doug
Sloan Grenz
was last seen at The Old Globe in Six Degrees of Separation, Sea of Tranquility and the 2008 and 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festivals. His other credits include a season at Weathervane Theatre, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (Whit & Will Players), Cinderella (Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts), Meaningless (Bailiwick Repertory Theatre), the premiere of Henry & Mudge and Huckleberry Finn (Theatreworks/USA), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (The Gallery Players), Robin Hood (Park Playhouse), Tradition (Fringe NYC) and Little Shop of Horrors (Jewish Theatre Ensemble). He has appeared in multiple industrials for NYU, Bellevue and various police departments. As a singer, he's performed at CBGB, The Knitting Factory, Pianos, the Chicago Humanities Festival and in his own one-man show at The Duplex. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University’s Theatre/Music Theatre program and his MFA in Acting from The Old Globe/USD.
Ben
Kevin Hoffmann
recently appeared at The Old Globe in Whisper House (Lt. Rando) as well as Twelfth Night (Sebastian), Cyrano de Bergerac (Musketeer), Coriolanus (Senator) and Six Degrees of Separation (Ben). He also played Speed in The Two Gentlemen of Verona with The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program where he was also seen in The Country Wife, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Greeks: The Murders. Regionally, Mr. Hoffmann has performed in Antony and Cleopatra and The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Theater at Monmouth), as well as Proof (Barksdale Theatre). His TV credits include “As the World Turns” and “All My Children.” His many commercials include Sony, Callaway Golf, and Fidelity Financial. Mr. Hoffmann holds a BFA in Acting from Elon University. www.kevinhoffmann.com
Larkin
Donald Sage Mackay
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: The Wood Demon, Mark Taper Forum; Sir Peter Hall Shakespeare Repertory at the Ahmanson; La Jolla Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, San Jose Rep, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Connecticut Rep, Theatre South Carolina, A Noise Within and five seasons at Utah Shakespeare Festival (title role in Doctor Faustus, Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Rev. Morell in Candida). FILM/TV: Recently completed Transformers 2 (directed by Michael Bay) and Play The Game (starring Andy Griffith); guest starred in upcoming Warner Bros. pilot The Amazing Mrs. Novak (by the executive producer of The West Wing); past guest stars include Mad Men, House, The West Wing, The Shield, JAG, Frasier, According to Jim, ER, recurring roles on Scrubs, The Practice and Providence. AWARDS: Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle award for Lead Performance as Pip in Great Expectations. EDUCATION: Moscow Art Theatre, MFA UC San Diego (and currently a guest lecturer). Co-Artistic Director of Pegasus, a non-profit theatre in Aspen.
Hustler/Rick
Joaquin Perez-Campbell
THE OLD GLOBE: Back Back Back. ELSEWHERE: Columbinus, NYTW; A Soldiers Play, Second Stage; The School of Night, Romeo and Juliet, Appreciation, Richard III, Balm in Gilead, As You Like It, Juilliard. FILM: The Hurt Locker, War of the Worlds, The Manchurian Candidate. TV: Numb3rs, Veronica Mars, 3 Lbs, CSI: NY, Guiding Light. TRAINING: The Juilliard School.
Flan
Thomas Jay Ryan
The Old Globe: Debut. Off Broadway: The Misanthrope (Directed by Ivo Van Hove at New York Theater Workshop), Pinter's The Room And Celebration (American Premiere), Atlantic Theater; Juno And The Paycock, Roundabout Theatre; Venus, Public Theater; Sin, The New Group; In The Matter Of J. Robert Oppenheimer (title role), Keen Company. Regional: Suitcase, La Jolla Playhouse; Will Eno's Tragedy: A Tragedy, Berkeley Rep; Five By Tenn, Kennedy Center; The Philadelphia Story, Hartford Stage; As You Like It, Guthrie Theater; Hedda Gabler, Shakespeare Theatre; Sara Ruhl's Passion Play, David Rabe's The Black Monk, Yale Rep. Films: Hal Hartley's Henry Fool (title role and reprised role in the sequel Fay Grim), Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind, The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Strange Culture, The Book Of Life, South Of Heaven and Degas and the Dancer (title role on HBO).
Paul
Samuel Stricklen
THE OLD GLOBE Debut. OFF-BROADWAY: Creation: A Clown Show. REGIONAL: Current Nobody, La Jolla Playhouse; Victor/Victoria, Phantom, Annie Get Your Gun, Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre; Cincinnati Pops w/Martin Short. NATIONAL/ INTERNATIONAL TOURS: SITI Company productions of bobrauschenbergamerica and Radio Macbeth, dir. Anne Bogart. OTHER THEATRE: I Ain’t Yo Uncle, A Dream Play, La Dispute, Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Tempest, Arms and the Man. TV: Six Degrees, As the World Turns, M.O.N.Y. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: SITI Company (workshop); Mr. Stricklen received an MFA in Acting from the University of California, San Diego.
Geoffrey
Tony Torn
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. RECENT THEATER: The Tempest opposite Mandy Patinkin, Classic Stage Company (NYC); Yellow Face, Mark Taper Forum (LA)/The Public Theater (NYC); Camille, Bard Summerscape; Titus Andronicus, Vienna Kunstlerhaus. He is known for his extensive work with Richard Foreman's Ontological-Hysteric Theater and the late Reza Abdoh's company dar a luz, both in the States and in Europe. RECENT FILM & TV: All Good Things opposite Ryan Gosling, The Stepford Wives, Law & Order. He is also a filmmaker whose satirical mini-series The Grand Inquisitor is available online, and whose debut feature Lucky Days (co-directed with sister Angelica Torn) was recently awarded Best Feature at The 2008 Coney Island Film Festival.
Kitty
Keliher Walsh
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Coastal Disturbances. OFF-BROADWAY: The Singular Life of Albert Nobbs, Gardenia, Breaking the Prairie Wolf Code, Postcards, James Joyce’s Dubliners, The Poker Session, Living Quarters. REGIONAL: Our Town, Eli, Tempest, Guthrie Theater; Scenes and Revelations, Pennsylvania Stage; Plough and the Stars, Huntington Theatre; The Royal Family, Pennsylvania Festival Theatre; Cloud Nine, Fifth of July, Portland Stage Company; Lady House Blues, American Stage Festival; Bad Art, Blank Theatre; This Old Man, Falcon Theatre; Bright Boy, Ensemble Studio Theatre. FILM: The Purple Hat. TV: Nip/Tuck. TRAINING: BA Fine Arts, Boston University. Member: Ensemble Studio Theatre and The Gordon Hunt Studio.
Ouisa
Karen Ziemba
Broadway: Contact (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Curtains (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Never Gonna Dance (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Chicago, 42nd Street, A Chorus Line and Crazy for You. Off Broadway: And the World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award); I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nomination). New York City Opera: 110 in the Shade, The Most Happy Fella. City Center Encores!: Bye Bye Birdie, The Pajama Game, Allegro. Regional: Six Degrees of Separation, The First Wives Club (The Old Globe), Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Hartford Stage), Sylvia (Long Wharf Theatre), Leading Ladies (Ford’s Theatre), House and Garden (Geva Theatre Center), The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Opposite of Sex (Magic Theatre), Shooting Star (Penguin Rep Theatre). Television and film: The Producers, “Scrubs,” all three “Law & Order” series, The Kennedy Center Honors and for PBS, “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies,” “Gershwin at 100” and “Stephen Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall.”
Team
Playwright
John Guare
John Guare is the Obie and New York Drama Critics Circle Award-winning playwright of such plays as House of Blue Leaves, Six Degrees of Separation (which won London’s Olivier Award as Best Play and for which he also wrote the screenplay), Landscape of the Body, A Few Stout Individuals, as well as his Oscar-nominated screenplay for Louis Malle's Atlantic City. He won a Tony Award® for his libretto to the musical Two Gentlemen of Verona and was nominated for a Tony for his play Four Baboons Adoring the Sun and his libretto to Sweet Smell of Success. His adaptation of His Girl Friday premiered to great acclaim at London's National Theater. He co-edits the Lincoln Center Theater Review, teaches playwriting at Yale School of Drama, is a council member of the Dramatists Guild, a trustee of PEN America and received the 2004 Gold Medal in Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. The NY Shakespeare Festival/ Public Theater will produce his new play, A Free Man of Color, next season.
Director
Trip Cullman
NEW YORK: Adam Bock’s The Drunken City, Playwrights Horizons; Gina Gionfriddo’s U.S. Drag, The StageFARM; Bob Farquhar’s Bad Jazz, The Play Company; Terrence McNally’s Some Men, 2econd Stage; Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa’s Dark Matters, Rattlestick; Roland Schimmelpfennig’s Arabian Night, The Play Company; Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God, Century Center; Glen Berger’s The Wooden Breeks, MCC; Sarah Schulman’s Manic Flight Reaction, Playwrights Horizons; Adam Bock’s Swimming in the Shallows, 2econd Stage Uptown; Paul Weitz’s Roulette, EST; Jonathan Tolins’s The Last Sunday in June, Century Center and Rattlestick; Brooke Berman’s Smashing, The Play Company; Rinne Groff’s Of a White Christmas, Clubbed Thumb; Gary Sunshine’s Sweetness, Brooke Berman’s Sam and Lucy, Summer Play Festival; The Wau Wau Sisters, Ars Nova. Regional: Richard Greenberg’s The Injured Party, South Coast Rep; The Petersons Project, Keith Huff’s A Steady Rain, New York Stage and Film; Lauren Weedman’s Rash, The Empty Space. Upcoming: Lloyd Suh’s American Hwangap, Magic Theatre and then in NY for The Play Company/Ma Yi.
Scenic Design
Andromache Chalfant
Andromache Chalfant is a set designer for theater and opera. She is based in New York City. Andromache has collaborated with theater artists such as Mark Wing-Davey, Les Waters, Sarah Ruhl, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Doug Varone. Her recent work includes: Theater: Samuel Beckett’s Endgame ( upcoming), A.R.T.; Christina Anderson’s Inked Baby (upcoming), Playwrights Horizons ; Jose Rivera's School of the Americas (Henry Hewes Nomination for Set Design); Stephen Adly Guirgus' The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, LAByrinth and The Public Theater; Anne Washburn's The Internationalist, The Vineyard Theatre; Rinne Groff’s Orange,Lemon,Egg,Canary, and The Civilians' (I am) Nobody's Lunch, PS122. Regional: Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House, Cleveland Playhouse; Clifford Odet’s Awake and Sing!, Arena Stage; Morris Panych’s VIGIL, Westport Country Playhouse; Craig Wright’s Lady, Asolo Repertory. Opera: Charles Gounod’s Faust (upcoming), Minnesota Opera ; Handel’s Semele, Opera Boston; Mozart’s The Abduction From the Seraglio, Opera Omaha; Dominick Argento’s Postcard From Morocco, The Curtis Institute; Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’Amore, The Berkshire Opera Festival. Andromache is an Associate Artist of The Civilians and a member of LAByrinth Theater Company. She has been a guest artist/lecturer at Sarah Lawrence and NYU. She received a BFA in Visual Art from Bennington College and a Masters in Scenic Design from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Costume Design
Emily Rebholz
New York: Dance Dance Revolution, Les Freres Corbusier; The Language of Trees, Roundabout Theatre; Clay, Lincoln Center Theater; The Ones That Flutter, Summer Play Festival; Jollyship the Whizbang, Boom, Ars Nova; U.S. Drag, The StageFarm; The Drum of the Waves of Horikawa, HERE; Have You Seen Steve Steven?, 13P; The Lacey Project, Ohio Theatre; MOMMA, PS 122; Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Actors Playhouse; The Private Lives of Eskimos, I (heart) Kant, The Committee Theater. Regional: Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson, Centre Theatre Group; Marat/Sade, Bard College; Doubt, Expecting Isabel, Asolo Repertory Theatre; Broke-ology, Beyond Therapy, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Safe in Hell, Yale Repertory Theatre. Emily has also designed costumes for the photographer, Gregory Crewdson, including The Dream House, published by the New York Times Magazine. Education: BA, Northwestern University; MFA, Yale School of Drama.
Lighting Design
Ben Stanton
Ben Stanton is a Lighting Designer and Visual Artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In NYC he has designed productions at the Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, MCC, The Kitchen, The Daryl Roth Theatre, Minetta Lane, The Play Company, Edge Theater Co., New World Stages, Primary Stages, Ars Nova, Soho Rep, & The Rattlestick Theater. His work has been seen regionally at theater companies including South Coast Rep, Huntington Theatre Co., Intiman Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse, Hartford Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse, & St. Louis Rep. Recent lighting installations include Save The Robots in collaboration with choreographer Gerald Casel at Dance New Amsterdam and Astroland in collaboration with Less The Band for their musical performance piece of the same name at The Kitchen. Ben has designed concerts for David Byrne, The Pierces, Less The Band, Sandra Bernhard, Patti Labelle, Dixie Chicks, Paul Simon, & Christina Aguilera. www.benstanton.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.
Voice & Dialect Coach
Jan Gist
has been Voice, Speech, and Dialect Coach for The Old Globe since 2002. Previously she was Head of Voice and Speech for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for nine years and 140 productions. She has coached at theatres around the country including: Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, PlayMakers Rep, Indiana Rep, American Players Theatre, and Mo’olelo. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s A Way With Words, narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story, and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is a founding member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. Recently she was invited to Russia to teach in the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre, and to London’s Central School of Speech & Drama to teach Shakespeare. She has been published in VASTA Journals; chapters in books include: The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects, and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations With Master Teachers. She teaches in The Old Globe/ USD Graduate Theatre Program.
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.
Assistant Stage Manager
Jennifer Leigh Wheeler
THE OLD GLOBE: Working, Six Degrees of Separation. OFF-BROADWAY: Clara’s Christmas Dreams, Theatre at St. Clements. REGIONAL: LA Philharmonic, Walt Disney Concert Hall; JC Superstar, Urinetown, The Musical (Critics Circle Award) Oklahoma!, Ragtime (Critics Circle Award), My Fair Lady and Nine, Starlight Theatre; The Who’s Tommy, The Ricardo Montalban; Cowboy vs. Samurai (Critics Circle Award), Mo’olelo Performing Arts; and many shows with Manhattan Children’s Theatre, NY. EDUCATION: BFA in Theatre Stage Management from USC. Love and thanks to JC, KJ, AR, LS, Jess, Mom & Dad. Jennifer is a proud Member of Actors’ Equity.
