Cast
Yasuhiro
Arthur Acuña
Mr. Acuña just finished a competition short (Philippine entry) for the ASEAN-ROK Film Festival in Korea next year. He also appeared as
Lihn at Goodman Theatre's world premiere of Ghostwritten, after a workshop production in Sundance 2006. His recent credits include
Two September and Most Wanted
at The La Jolla Playhouse. Mr. Acuña received an Obie Award for The Romance of Magno Rubio in the
role of Nick. His international credits include the lead in David Henry Hwang’s The Golden Child in Manila, Philippines. He also played leads in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Real Thing with Repertory Philippines. Mr. Acuña’s film credits include
To Maritina, Rigodon, Batang West Side (as Bartolo) at the Manila International Film Festival (for which he received the Best Actor Award). Television roles include “Law and Order,” “Law and Order: Criminal Intent,” “Third Watch,” “As the World Turns,” “Stella,” “To Maritina” and “One Life to Live.” Mr. Acuña will be playing the role of Macario Locsin in the next John Sayles film to be shot next year. www.arthuracu.blogspot.com
Ghost
Holly Brook
Ms. Brook is a Wisconsin native, but is a true vagabond. For seven years, she has bounced between Los Angeles, New York, countless tours and the woods of Oregon, where she likes to escape to re-energize and nurture her creative muses. Ms. Brook had three independent albums under her belt by age 15, in mother-daughter duo, “Generations.” At 19, she was recognized worldwide for her vocal contribution on a song called, "Where'd You Go," by Fort Minor, which was a Linkin Park side project. Soon after she released her debut solo record, “Like Blood Like Honey,” on Machine Shop Records/Warner Bros., she teamed up with Duncan Sheik. Together, they've worked on many projects and toured the country numerous times. She is the featured female vocalist on the “Whisper House” album. Ms. Brook is currently awaiting the release of her new album, “O'Dark Thirty” for which Sheik has had a major hand in producing (date TBA). This is Ms. Brook's first step back into a theatre production since her youth when she participated in a dozen or so community and professional theatre musicals. She is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such an incredible cast and crew, and to spend time living in yet another new city. Ms. Brook dreams big and has
a hard time living in the real world, but with what she's been able to accomplish so far in life, it looks like anything is possible.
Lilly
Celeste Ciulla
THE OLD GLOBE: All’s Well That Ends Well, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Titus Andronicus, Othello, The Trojan Women. BROADWAY: The neon lights are bright. OFF-BROADWAY: Phantom Lady, Exit the King, She Stoops to Conquer, The Good Natur’d Man, Phedre, Andromache, The Tempest, Nathan the Wise and many others at the The Pearl Theatre. REGIONAL: ...And LA is Burning, Brooklyn Boy, Hysteria, As Bees in Honey Drown, Florida Studio Theatre; Frost/Nixon, Geva; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Pioneer Theatre; Moon Over Buffalo, Tea and Sympathy, American Stage Festival; and Thou Art, Life Theatre. FILM: Celeste made a film called Time’s Up, which she’s never seen. TV: She needs a new one. EDUCATION: Northwestern and Harvard Universities. Celeste is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and The Urban Rocks Project.
Charles, the Sheriff
Ted Kōch
Mr. Kōch has appeared in several Broadway productions including The Pillowman, Death of a Salesman and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
His Off Broadway credits include Meshugah, Naked Angels;
The Chaos Theories, Shotgun Productions and Topsy Turvy Mouse, Cherry Lane Theater. His National Tours include Frost/Nixon and Death of a Salesman. Mr. Kōch has also appeared in numerous regional productions including The Front Page and Sweet Bird of Youth, Williamstown Theater Festival;
True West, Arena Stage (Helen Hayes Nomination - Outstanding Lead Actor); Pig Farm and Sea of Tranquility, The Old Globe;
A Streetcar Named Desire, Studio Arena Theatre; The Fair Maid of the West and Orphans; CT-20 Ensemble (Joseph Jefferson Award - Best Actor); and As You Like It, Goodman Theatre. Television credits include “Gossip Girl,” “Cashmere Mafia,” “The Sopranos,” “The West Wing,” “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Film credits include Cold Souls, Collar, Hannibal, Dinner Rush, Griffin and Phoenix, and Death of a Salesman.
Lieutenant Rando
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
Ghost
David Poe
Mr. Poe is a songwriter, performing musician, producer and composer for film and dance. Transplanted from the American Midwest to New York City, Mr. Poe served as the sound engineer at CBGB before being signed to Sony Music. He has released five critically-acclaimed studio albums and two live albums: his debut, "David Poe" (Sony/550 1997), produced by T-Bone Burnett, "The Late Album" (Sony/Epic 2002), "Love Is Red" (Universal/Fuel 2004), "David Poe Live & Solo" (The Artists Den 2005) a live performance DVD, "David Poe Onstage at World Café" (Universal/Decca 2006), and two commissioned works for dance:
"The Copier: Music for Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet" (2008) and "Shadowland: Music for Pilobolus," (2009) the company's first-ever
full-length shadow dance piece, currently on tour. Mr. Poe has produced recordings for Regina Spektor, Joseph Arthur and Kraig Jarret Johnson, collaborated with several other songwriters, including T-Bone Burnett, Grace Potter and Reni Lane and scored five films, including The Brooklyn Heist, Dare and the forthcoming Harvest, with longtime collaborator Duncan Sheik. In 2009, the Sundance Institute named him a Composer Fellow for his film score work. His songs have taken him around the globe as support act for Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Tori Amos and have been featured in numerous film and television soundtracks: Transamerica, “The OC,” “Dawson's Creek,” Seibutsu: Still Life, Jesus Henry Christ and Sam Shepard's play The Tooth of Crime (Second Dance). A new David Poe CD will
be released this fall. www.davidpoe.com
Christopher
A.J. Foggiano
A.J. Foggiano is thrilled to be back for a fifth year! His theatre credits include Christopher in Whisper House and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’06-’09 and ’11, The Old Globe), Fenton in The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Old Globe Summer Shakespeare Intensive), Randolph MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie (San Diego Musical Theatre), Coroner, Ozian and Monkey in The Wizard of Oz (Starlight Musical Theatre), Frog in A Year with Frog and Toad and Dan Dad and Jesus in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (San Diego Junior Theatre), Horton in Seussical the Musical (Actors’ Conservatory Theatre – San Diego), Eddie and Rabi in 13 (American Rose Theatre) and Michael Darling in Peter Pan (Christian Youth Theater). His film and television credits include Drug User in an Oxycontin PSA (KUSI), Anthony in Ready? OK! (Daisy 3 Pictures) and Young Keokum in The Legend of Pocahontas (I Can Fly Pictures).
Team
Music and Lyrics
Duncan Sheik
Mr. Sheik is a Grammy and Tony Award-winning singer-songwriter
and composer. Mr. Sheik initially found success as a singer, most notably for his 1996 debut single, “Barely Breathing,” which spent 55 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100. He has since expanded his work to include compositions for motion pictures and the Broadway stage. Mr. Sheik won two Tony Awards, as composer and arranger, for the Broadway production of Spring Awakening. Written with lyricist Steven Sater, Spring Awakening also received the Tony Award for Best Musical. Mr. Sheik’s and Mr. Sater’s creative partnership began with the album, “Phantom Moon,” released on Nonesuch in 2000. They are currently developing two new musical theatre projects, The Nightingale, based on the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale and Nero, (Another Golden Rome) which had a workshop production during the summer of 2008 at Vassar College, featuring Wicked star Idina Menzel and Spring Awakening ingénue Lea Michelle. His albums include “Duncan Sheik” (1996), “Humming” (1998), “Phantom Moon” (2001), “Daylight” (2002), “White Limousine” (2006) and “Brighter/ Later: A Duncan Sheik Anthology” (2006). His concept album for Whisper House was released earlier this year on RCA Victor. www.duncansheik.com
Book and Lyrics
Kyle Jarrow
Mr. Jarrow is a Brooklyn-based writer, composer and performer.
He writes for film and television as well as the stage, and he plays in the rock bands Super Mirage and The Fabulous Entourage. He won an Obie Award at age 24 for his play
A Very Merry Unauthorized Children's Scientology Pageant, which has subsequently been produced around the country. Other plays include Hostage Song, Love Kills, Trigger, President Harding is a Rock Star, Rip Me Open and Gorilla Man. He wrote the screenplay for the film Armless – based on his play of the same name – which will premiere as an official selection of the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Mr. Jarrow has been a Dramatists Guild Fellow,
a John Golden Prize winner, a nominee for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and a Backstage West Garland Award. He's a co-founder of the indie publishing company Awkward Press, and with
his band The Fabulous Entourage
he performed as part of the 2006 Whitney Biennial. His band Super Mirage will be releasing their debut LP, “Pretty Lies,” in February 2010. He is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in religious studies. www.landoftrust.com
Director
Peter Askin
Mr. Askin directed John Leguizamo’s Sexaholix, Spic-O-Rama (Drama Desk Award) and Mambo Mouth (Obie and Outer Critics Awards). Other New York credits include Paul Weitz’s Show People and Privilege; Pulitzer Prize finalist
Dael Orlandersmith’s Monster and Beauty’s Daughter (Obie Award),
as well as her play The Gimmick (conceived and directed). Other productions include Hedwig and
the Angry Inch, Trumbo and Eve Ensler’s The Good Body. Mr. Askin’s upcoming projects include Stephen King and John Mellencamp’s The Ghost Brothers of Darkland County. He has directed regionally at Goodman Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Ahmanson Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse and Dorset Theatre Festival. His film
and television credits include Smithereens (co-writer), Company Man (co-writer, director), Trumbo (director) and HBO’s “Spic-O-Rama” (Cable Ace Award).
Dance Director
Wesley Fata
Mr. Fata has choreographed several productions at The Old Globe including the 2008 Shakespeare Festival and Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little (1987). His Broadway credits include Master Harold...and the Boys (dir. Athol Fugard); David Merrick's I Won't Dance (dir. Tom O'Horgan);
The News, Senator Joe (dir. Tom O'Horgan); Hair (assistant director/ choreographer, original production). Mr. Fata’s regional credits include James Lapine's 12 Dreams, The Public Theater; Gertrude Stein (dir. James Lapine), New York Theatre of the Eye; Lost in the Stars (dir. Arvin Brown); Camille with Kathleen Turner, Long Wharf Theatre; Travels With My Aunt (with Jim Dale), Minetta Lane Theatre; Capitol Cakewalk, Vineyard Theatre.
Mr. Fata has also choreographed numerous operas including: Les Troyens, Vienna State Opera;
A Soldiers Tale (cond. Gerald Schwartz), Carnegie Hall; Leonard Bernstein's Mass, Kennedy Center (10th anniversary production); Daphne and News of the Day,
Santa Fe Opera. His film credits include The Coen Brothers’
The Hudsucker Proxy and The Good Shepherd (co-choregraphed with Julie Arenal; dir. Robert de Niro). Mr. Fata has taught at the Yale School of Drama for 32 years and has choreographed as many plays there. His favorite experience was dancing with the Martha Graham Dance Company at Covent Garden.
Musical Director/Keyboards
Jason Hart
Mr. Hart is thrilled to be working with Duncan and Kyle on Whisper House. He has toured internationally with Rufus Wainwright and was a core member of Mercury-Prize winners Antony and the Johnsons. Other performing and/or recording credits include Gavin Degraw, Elton John, Lou Reed, Keren Ann, Kris Kristofferson, the B52's and others. His theatre credits include: Burleigh Grimes at New World Stages (keys, bass and guitar); Medea: In Concert at NYU (original music, musical direction); The Shadow at the High School of the Performing Arts (original music, musical direction). Mr. Hart is also a songwriter and recording artist whose debut CD
is entitled "If I Were You." www.myspace.com/jasonhartmusic
Scenic Design
Michael Schweikardt
Michael Schweikardt designed the World Premiere of Duncan Sheik’s Whisper House for The Old Globe. Mr. Schweikardt has created sets for several musicals by Joe Iconis including Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova), ReWrite (Urban Stages), The Black Suits (The Public Theater) and Things to Ruin (The Zipper Factory and Second Stage Theatre). His other recent credits include the critically acclaimed productions of Showboat, Annie Get Your Gun, 1776, Big River and Camelot (Goodspeed Musicals), Ella, appearing in cities all across the country, Barnum (Asolo Repertory Theatre’s 50th anniversary season), Oklahoma! starring Kelli O’Hara and Will Chase (Oklahoma State Centennial), the American premieres of Frank McGuinness’ Gates of Gold and The Bird Sanctuary and national and international tours of James Taylor’s One Man Band. www.msportfolio.com.
Costume Design
Jenny Mannis
Jenny Mannis has designed the Globe productions of Whisper House, The Mystery of Irma Vep and Pig Farm. Her New York credits include Wild Animals You Should Know, Spain and In a Dark Dark House (MCC Theater), Urge for Going (The Public Theater), Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club), Edgewise (The Play Company), Port Authority and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (Atlantic Theater Company), The Talls, Year Zero, 10 Things To Do Before I Die and Swimming in the Shallows (Second Stage Theatre), The Drunken City (Lortel Award nomination), Pen and Manic Flight Reaction (Playwrights Horizons), Something You Did and The Right Kind of People (Primary Stages) and Dog Sees God (Century Center). Her regional credits include work at The Goodman Theatre, The Old Globe, Barrington Stage Company, Two River Theater Company, The Studio Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre. She received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. Upcoming she is designing The Birds at Guthrie Theater.
Lighting Design
Matthew Richards
Matthew Richards previously designed the Globe productions of The Violet Hour, Bell, Book and Candle, The Women, Whisper House and Welcome to Arroyo’s. His Off Broadway credits include Graceland (Lincoln Center Theater), Port Authority (Atlantic Theater Company), The Drunken City and Pen (Playwrights Horizons), Grace (MCC Theater), Len and Asleep in Vinyl (Second Stage Theatre), Seussical and Click, Clack, Moo (TheatreworksUSA), One Loss Plus (BAM Next Wave Festival), Ars Nova, Edge Theater Company, Katharsis Theater Company, The Play Company and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. His regional credits include CENTERSTAGE, Bay Street Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Cleveland Play House, Ford’s Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, New York Stage and Film, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mr. Richards is a graduate of University of Massachusetts and Yale School of Drama. matthewrichardsdesign.com.
Sound Design
Dan Moses Schreier
Dan Moses Schreier (Sound Design) previously composed original music for Much Ado About Nothing and sound designed The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for the Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival. He has sound designed the Broadway productions of Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Gypsy, Radio Golf, John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Gem of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Into the Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tempest and Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. His Off Broadway sound design credits include Road Show, Stuff Happens, Homebody/Kabul and Floyd Collins. He composed music for the Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington and The Tempest with Patrick Stewart and the Off Broadway production of Disfarmer at St. Ann’s Warehouse. He has received three Tony Awards nominations, three Drama Desk Awards and an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. danmosesschreier.com.
Projection Design
Aaron Rhyne
Aaron Rhyne (Projection Design) designed the Globe productions of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Whisper House and Working. His Broadway credits include Bonnie & Clyde and his Off Broadway credits include Water by the Spoonful, Lonely, I’m Not, The Blue Flower and All New People (Second Stage Theatre), Wild with Happy (The Public Theater), Graceland (Lincoln Center Theater), Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club), Taylor Mac’s Obie Award-winning The Lily’s Revenge (HERE Arts Center) and Dutchman (Cherry Lane Theatre). His opera credits include Florencia en el Amazonas (Washington Opera, Opera Colorado, Utah Opera), La Traviata (Wolf Trap) and Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House). Regionally he has designed Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre), Strange Interlude (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Working (Asolo Rep, Broadway in Chicago), The Civil War (Ford’s Theatre) and The Last Five Years (Asolo Rep). Additionally, Mr. Rhyne creates videos for various television projects, including “Project Runway” and “The Marriage Ref.” aaronrhyne.com.
Stage Manager
Richard Costabile
Mr. Costabile delights in returning to
The Old Globe 21 years after his first visit, as stage manager of Blood Wedding. In the interim, he has been lucky enough to have worked on seven Broadway productions (Translations, The Odd Couple, Hal Holbrook’s Mark Twain Tonight!, Anna in the Tropics, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg, The School for Scandal, George Abbott's Broadway), plus tours that have included Roger Rees in What You Will, Death of a Salesman, Mark Twain Tonight! and White Christmas. Off Broadway he has stage managed at Roundabout Theatre (Intimate Apparel, Fiction, All Over), Playwrights Horizons (Goodnight Children Everywhere), and the Public Theater/NYSF (Love's Labors Lost), among many others. Regional theatre work includes Great Lakes Theater Festival (11 seasons), Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, McCarter Theatre Center, O'Neill National Music Theater Conference, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Hartford Stage and Denver Center Theatre. He ran away with Big Apple Circus (Summers of ’07 and ’08), and he recently made his Carnegie Hall debut as stage manager for the Collegiate Chorale’s Fall concert with the American Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Costabile has taught at Mason Gross/Rutgers and SUNY Purchase and has been a guest lecturer at colleges nationwide.
The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater in NYC is where he received his training as an actor. Last May, the members of the Stage Managers' Association elected him to his fifth term as Chairman.
Asst. Stage Manager
Moira Gleason
has stage managed several shows at The Old Globe including Alive and Well, Whisper House, Since Africa, Back Back Back, Sea of Tranquility, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Constant Wife, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘05), Summer Shakespeare Festivals (2005, ‘07, ‘08 and ‘09), Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Fiction, The Full Monty, as Douglas Pagliotti Stage Management Intern: Old Wicked Songs. She has also been the Stage Manager for Adoption Project: Triad (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), Miss Witherspoon (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and Fathom (Malashock Dance, ‘06). Ms. Gleason has held many different positions at The Old Globe from House Manager to Carpenter, Master Sound Technician to Education Coordinator. She holds a BA from Southern Oregon University and is a proud member of The Actors’ Equity Association.
