Cast
Lady Enid Hillcrest/Nicodemus Underwood/Alcazar/Pev Amri
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.
Lord Edgar Hillcrest/Jane Twisden/An Intruder
John Cariani
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Broadway: Fiddler on the Roof (Tony Award® nomination; Outer Critics Circle Award). Off Broad-way: The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Public/NYSF; Modern Orthodox; It’s My Party… REGIONAL: Ahmanson Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Film: Scotland, PA; Show-time; Kissing Jessica Stein; Robot Stories. TV: Law & Order (Beck, the forensics tech, 2002-2007), Six Degrees; Ed. EDUCATION: Amherst College.
The Third Man
Chris Wollman
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Chris is currently double-majoring in Theatre Performance and English at San Diego State University, where he has appeared in productions including Urinetown the Musical, Desire Under the Elms and The Good Person of Szechwan.
Team
Playwright
Charles Ludlam
Ludlam was a multi-talented, off the wall and out of the closet actor, playwright, director, and producer whose Ridiculous Theatrical Company broke boundaries and helped define the avant-garde Off Off Broadway movement. He was born in Floral Park, New York, and educated at Hofstra University. He first acted professionally in New York in 1967 with the Playhouse of the Ridiculous where some of his plays were performed. But later that year he founded his own troupe and was busy for the next twenty years, the company going from obscurity, to campy cult interest, to citywide admiration. Ludlam usually played the leading role (male or female) in his outrageous spoofs, although as time went by he employed less camp and more of a highly theatrical style. Perhaps his Marguerite Gautier in Camille (1974) was the role most identified with Ludlam and his play The Mystery of Irma Vep (1984) is his most revived in theatres across the country. (Bio from Answers.com)
Director
Henry Wishcamper
Conor McPherson’s Port Authority, Atlantic Theater Company; The Seafarer, Hartford TheaterWorks; The Good Thief, Portland Stage; Horton Foote’s Talking Pictures, Goodman Theatre; Lanford Wilson’s The Mound Builders, Juilliard; Jane Martin’s Flags, 59e59; Doug Grissom’s Elvis People, New World Stages; his own play The Polish Play, A Conflation of Macbeth by William Shakespeare and Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry, Katharsis Theater Company; Thornton Wilder’s Pullman Car Hiawatha (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Revival of a Play), Keen Company. He served as the assistant director on the Broadway productions of August: Osage County (directed by Anna D. Shapiro) and Shining City (directed by Robert Falls). Henry is the Artistic Director of Katharsis Theater Company. He is a Drama League Directing Fellow and a graduate of Yale University. Upcoming: The Marx Brothers’ Animal Crackers at the Goodman.
Scenic Design
Robin Vest
NEW YORK: Hoodoo Love, The Cherry Lane; A Very Common Procedure, MCC; Pen, Playwrights Horizons; Geometry of Fire, Acts of Mercy: passion-play and God Hates the Irish, Rattlestick; Black Snow, The New School; Mario and the Magician, Center for Contemporary Opera; Get What You Need, Atlantic 453. Regional: Animal Crackers, Goodman Theatre; Hansel and Gretel, Washington National Opera; Ariadne Auf Naxos, Utah Opera, Vancouver Opera; Brevard Music Center, Triad Stage, Playmaker’s Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Repertory Theatre. Robin is on the design faculty at Rutgers University.
Costume Design
Jenny Mannis
Ms. Mannis has designed the following Old Globe productions The Mystery of Irma Vep and Pig Farm. Her New York productions include 10 Things To Do Before
I Die ans Swimming in the Shallows, Second Stage; Port Authority and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Atlantic Theater Company; The Drunken City (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Pen and Manic Flight Reaction, Playwrights Horizons; Something You Did and The Right Kind of People, Primary Stages; Spain and In a Dark Dark House, MCC; Dog Sees God, Century Center For the Performing Arts; The Polish Play, Katharsis Theater Company; Heddatron and Boozy, Les Freres Corbusier; Stay and Where We’re Born, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater; Animal Farm (Drama Desk Award nomination) Synapse Productions. Her regional credits include Goodman Theatre,
Two River Theater Company, The Studio Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Yale Repertory Theater. She has worked on several films including Beloved, Elevation Filmworks; All Saints Day, Washington Square Films. Ms. Mannis received her MFA from the Yale School of Drama (awarded the Leo Lerman Fellowship in Design).
Lighting Design
Jason Bieber
THE OLD GLOBE: Since Africa. OLD GLOBE MFA: Richard III, An Absolute Turkey, Marat/Sade, Uncle Vanya. ELSEWHERE: Cowboy Versus Samurai (2007 Patté Award), Permanent Collection, Night Sky (2008 Patté Award), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company; Sweet 15 Quinceñera, San Diego Repertory Theatre; Nine, My Fair Lady, Starlight Theatre; Bluebonnet Court, No Exit, Scrooge in Rouge, Diversionary Theatre; Bleeding Kansas, Moxie Theatre; Charlie’s Aunt, A Christmas Carol, North Coast Repertory Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Orphans, Prelude to a Kiss, New Village Arts; Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Muertos, The Crucible, Songs for a New World, American Song, Einstein's Dreams, University of San Diego; Young Playwrights Project: Plays by Young Writers 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2007; Henry and Ramona, Suds, Seussical the Musical, J-Company; Once on this Island, Macbeth, Carnegie Mellon University; Blood Wedding, You Can’t Take it With You, LA County High School for the Arts. AWARDS: Has received two Patté Awards for lighting design. EDUCATION: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
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.
Fight Director
Steve Rankin
is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe as an actor and fight director. This is his 24th season staging fights for the Globe, including the 2004-2009 Summer Shakespeare Festivals, Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus, The First Wives Club – A New Musical, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, In This Corner, Pig Farm, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Hamlet, White Linen, Julius Caesar, Henry V and Richard II. His Broadway credits include Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2 (directed by Jack O’Brien), Memphis, Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls, Twelfth Night, Getting Away with Murder, Dracula the Musical, The Who’s Tommy, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound and Two Shakespearean Actors. Mr. Rankin’s Off Broadway credits include The Third Story, Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died and Richard Dresser’s Below the Belt. His regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Geva Theatre Center, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Virginia Stage Company and Actors Theatre of Louisville. His film credits include Renaissance Man, Human Error and Tumbleweeds. His international credits include The Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Rankin’s Opera credits include Seattle Opera, San Diego Opera and the Metropolitan Opera.
Stage Manager
Kathryn Davies
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: Our Mother's Brief Affair, The Injured Party, South Coast Repertory; La Bohème, Hansel and Gretel, Tulsa Opera. REGIONAL CANADA: Of Mice and Men, Theatre Calgary/CanStage/ Neptune Theatre/National Arts Centre; To Kill A Mockingbird, Citadel Theatre/ Manitoba Theatre Centre; Vinci, Manitoba Theatre Centre/National Arts Centre/CanStage; The Dresser, Manitoba Theatre Centre; The Four Lives of Marie, Emphysema, Motel Hélène, Sunlight, The Designated Mourner, Tarragon Theatre; Phèdre, Soulpepper Theatre Company; Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Closer, CanStage; Oleanna, The Anger in Ernest and Ernestine, Neptune Theatre; The Wizard of Oz, The Grand Theatre; Don Pasquale, La Bohème, La Traviata, Les Pêcheurs de Perles, Roméo et Juliette, Tosca, Otello, La Fille du Régiment, Opera Ontario. FILM: Ms. Davies has worked as a Head Theatre Representative and Team Leader for the Toronto International Film Festival, Dubai International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.
