Cast
Son
Devon Abner
Devon Abner has appeared in Dividing the Estate at Primary Stages, the Booth Theatre and the Alley Theatre. His other recent New York theatre credits include four characters in Horton Foote’s masterwork The Orphans’ Home Cycle and Ludie in The Trip to Bountiful (Signature Theatre). He has appeared on television in two episodes of “The Office” and Horton Foote’s Alone.
Stella Gordon
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley made her Broadway debut in 1959 in The Highest Tree. Her Broadway credits include August: Osage County, Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April, The Best Man, Take Her, She’s Mine (Tony Award), Barefoot in the Park (Tony nomination), The Skin of Our Teeth, Caesar and Cleopatra, Legend, Hide and Seek and Agnes of God. She is best known as an interpreter of Tennessee Williams, including Eight by Tenn, the 1973 Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Tony nomination), Suddenly Last Summer, Red Devil Battery Sign and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore Out Cry and Sweet Bird of Youth. Off Broadway she played Isadora Duncan in When She Danced (Playwrights Horizons), Dividing the Estate (Primary Stages) and the New York premiere of Me, Myself and I. Her National Tours and regional work include The Perfect Party and The Enchanted (The Kennedy Center), Master Class (Royal Alexandria Theatre), Regina in The Little Foxes, Vanities, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, A Coupla White Chicks, Full Gallop and Eleemosynary. Most recently she starred in Mrs. Warren’s Profession at The Shakespeare Theatre Company. Her film credits include The Carpetbaggers, Ship of Fools, Rancho Deluxe, The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker, Golden Needles, 92 in the Shade, The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday, Coma, Paternity, Split Image, Dragnet, Vampire’s Kiss, A Man of Passion, Happiness, Just the Ticket, Stagecoach, Windows, The Cake Eaters and Broadway: The Golden Age.
Mildred
Pat Bowie
Pat Bowie made her Alley Theatre debut with this production. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate and The Song of Jacob Zulu. Her Off Broadway credits include The Orphans’ Home Cycle and Dividing the Estate. Her regional credits include To Kill a Mockingbird (Hartford Stage), Granny Root in Pecong (Victory Garden Theater), Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing and Lena in A Raisin in the Sun (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Ma Dear in Jar on the Floor (Alliance Theatre), Aunt Esther in Gem of the Ocean (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and The First Breeze of Summer (Court Theatre). She has also appeared in the tour of Flyin’ West as Miss Lea. Her credits in the United Kingdom include The Man from Auntie, Waking the Dead, One Fine Day, Disappearing Acts, Spell Number 7 on BBC, the tour of The Playboy of the West Indies, The Day the Bronx Died, the English premiere of August Wilson’s King Hedley II (The Tricycle Theatre), Vieux Carre (Nottingham Playhouse) and Small World (Southwark Playhouse). She is a member of The Tricycle Theatre and a 2007 United States Artist Fellow.
Bob
James DeMarse
James DeMarse has Broadway and Off Broadway credits that include Dividing the Estate, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, The Trip to Bountiful, Down the Garden Paths, White People, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Last Moon and Diminished Capacity. His regional credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Dividing the Estate and The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hartford Stage), Breaking Legs (Pasadena Playhouse), The Big Knife (Capital Repertory Theatre), Cantorial (Jewish Repertory Theatre) and Subject to Fits (The Public Theater). His selected television credits include “Royal Pains,” “The Good Wife,” “Chappelle’s Show,” “The Sopranos,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Ferris Bueller,” “Sons and Daughters,” “One Life to Live” and “Law & Order.” His film credits include The Baxter, Side by Each, Fresh Cut Grass, If Freud Had a Video Camera and Surprise. He has received a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award nomination.
Mary Jo
Hallie Foote
Hallie Foote received a 2009 Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance of Mary Jo in the Broadway premiere of Dividing the Estate. She has played the role in the play’s New York Off Broadway premiere at Primary Stages in 2007, at Hartford Stage in 2009 and most recently at Houston’s Alley Theatre in 2011. Known as the one of the foremost interpreters of her father’s work, she has received numerous awards for her performances, including Drama Desk, OBIE, Lucille Lortel, Drama League and Richard Seff Awards. The daughter of Lillian Vallish Foote and Horton Foote, she began her stage career in 1986 in the title role of her father’s play The Widow Claire at Circle in the Square Theatre. She and her father collaborated on multiple productions including The Carpetbagger’s Children (Lincoln Center Theater), The Last of the Thorntons, Talking Pictures, Night Seasons, Laura Dennis and The Trip to Bountiful (Signature Theatre Company) and When They Speak of Rita and The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages), among many others. In 2010, she appeared in the critically-acclaimed three-part, nine-hour production of her father’s epic The Orphans’ Home Cycle, which won Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Lortel Awards and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Play and the Theatrical Event of the Season. Her other regional credits include The Death of Papa (PlayMakers Repertory Company), The Carpetbagger’s Children (Guthrie Theatre) and God’s Pictures (Indiana Repertory Theatre). Her selected film credits include 1918, On Valentine’s Day, Courtship, Walking to the Waterline and Paranormal Activity 3, and she was the producer of Lily Dale on Showtime and Hallmark Hall of Fame.
Lewis Gordon
Horton Foote Jr.
Horton Foote Jr. is returning to the stage after almost 17 years. He is thrilled to be working with his sister again and is excited for the chance to work with such a great cast. He is grateful for the opportunity that Michael Wilson has afforded him and is looking forward to being a part of what he considers to be one of his father’s greatest plays.
Lucille
Penny Fuller
Penny Fuller reprises this role having played it on Broadway, Off Broadway, at Hartford Stage and at Alley Theatre. She is thrilled to return to The Old Globe where she appeared in repertory playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet directed by Diana Maddox, Viola in Twelfth Night directed by Craig Noel and Doll Tearsheet in Henry IV, Part 2 directed by Edward Payson Call. She began her Broadway career starring in Barefoot in the Park, three Shakespeare in the Park productions and the musicals Cabaret, Rex and Applause, for which she received a Tony Award nomination for the role of Eve Harrington. Her television work garnered five Emmy Award nominations and an Emmy for ABC’s The Elephant Man. She received a Tony Award nomination in 2001 for her performance in Neil Simon’s The Dinner Party. Off Broadway she was seen in Love, Loss and What I Wore, Beautiful Child (Vineyard Theatre), Southern Comforts (Primary Stages) and Three Viewings and New England (Manhattan Theatre Club). She has played a variety of roles in regional theatre including Amanda in The Glass Menagerie, Arkadina in The Seagull and Claire in A Delicate Balance. With William Finn’s A New Brain at Lincoln Center Theater, she returned to musical theatre and has since starred in productions of A Little Night Music, Do I Hear a Waltz? and, in London, Sail Away. She has embarked on a new career phase as a cabaret artist singing in New York clubs and theatres.
Sissie
Nicole Lowrance
Nicole Lowrance reprises the role she recently played at Alley Theatre. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate (also at Primary Stages). Her international credits include The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company). Her Off Broadway credits include The Merchant of Venice, The Jew of Malta, All’s Well That Ends Well, Engaged and Don Juan (Theatre for a New Audience), Columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop), Tatjana in Color (Culture Project), Red Frogs (PS122) and Measure for Measure (New York Shakespeare Festival). Her regional credits include Steel Magnolias (Cape May Stage), Beyond Therapy and David Copperfield (Westport Country Playhouse), Oleanna and Speed the Plow (American Theater Company), The Importance of Being Earnest (CENTERSTAGE), Curse of the Starving Class (American Conservatory Theater), The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue (Hartford Stage), Romeo and Juliet (Folger Theatre) and The Little Foxes and Hamlet (The Shakespeare Theatre Company). Her television credits include “Law & Order,” “Whoopi,” “Guiding Light” and “American Masters” on PBS. She is a Juilliard School graduate.
Pauline
Kelly McAndrew
Kelly McAndrew is thrilled to be returning to The Old Globe, having last appeared in August: Osage County, Alive and Well and Sight Unseen. Her Broadway credits include Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Her Off Broadway credits include Still Life (MCC Theater), Lyric is Waiting (Irish Repertory Theatre), Trout Stanley (Culture Project), The Cataract (Women’s Project), Greedy (Clubbed Thumb), Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project) and Book of Days (Signature Theatre Company). Ms. McAndrew’s regional credits include Precious Little (City Theatre), Holiday (Olney Theatre Center, Helen Hayes nomination for Lead Actress in a Resident Play), The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope (Arena Stage), Talley’s Folly (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park) and Proof (George Street Playhouse) as well as World Premieres at Huntington Theatre Company, CENTERSTAGE, Denver Center Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Arizona Theatre Company. Her film and television credits include In the Family (Independent Spirit Award nomination), Everybody’s Fine (with Robert De Niro), Superheroes, New Guy, “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Gossip Girl” and “As the World Turns.” She received her M.F.A. from University of Missouri—Kansas City and her B.A. from University of San Diego.
Emily
Jenny Dare Paulin
Jenny Dare Paulin has appeared on and off Broadway in Dividing the Estate and The Orphans’ Home Cycle. Her regional theatre credits include Dividing the Estate (Alley Theatre and Hartford Stage), The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner (John W. Engeman Theater at Northport), The Roads to Home (2nd Story Theatre), Angel Feathers (Lost Theater), The Trip to Bountiful (Actors Theatre of San Francisco) and Antigone. Her television credits include Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, “Promised Land” and “Dawson’s Creek.” Her film credits include Future Weather, Bulletface, The Double Born, Infection and Cool Air. She most recently appeared in Young Adult directed by Jason Reitman.
Cathleen
Keiana Richàrd
Keiana Richàrd, a native of Tennessee, returns to the role she played at Alley Theatre. Her Broadway credits include Dividing the Estate directed by Michael Wilson, and her Off Broadway credits include Forgotten World (Sundance Institute/The Public Theater), Ghosts (The Pearl Theatre Company), Dividing the Estate (Primary Stages) and 365 Days/365 Plays (Slant Theatre Project/The Public Theater). Her regional credits include Milk Like Sugar reading (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Eclipsed directed by Liesl Tommy (McCarter Theatre Center), Good Breeding directed by Robert O’Hara and La Dispute directed by Darko Tresnjak (UC San Diego/La Jolla Playhouse) and The Wiz directed by Des McAnuff (La Jolla Playhouse). Her television credits include projects such as “12 Steps to Recovery” and “Delocated.” She received her M.F.A. from UC San Diego.
Doug
Roger Robinson
Roger Robinson has appeared on Broadway in Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony Award), Drowning Crow, St. Louis Women at City Center Encores!, Seven Guitars (Tony Award nomination), Amen Corner, Ain’t Supposed to Die a Natural Death, Talent ‘64, Elaborate Lives: The Legend of Aida, The Iceman Cometh and Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Internationally he appeared in Jitney at the Royal National Theatre. His Off Broadway credits include The Cherry Orchard, The Middle of Nowhere, Of Mice and Men, Do Lord Remember Me?, The Trials of Brother Jero, The Strong Breed, Who’s Got His Own?, Crooks, Lady Day, MacBird! and Walk in Darkness. His television credits include “Rubicon” on AMC, “NYPD Blue,” “The Education of Max Bickford,” three episodes of “ER,” “Kate Brasher,” “Friends,” “Homicide: Life on the Street,” “Law & Order,” “New York Undercover,” “The Cosby Show,” “A Man Called Hawk,” “The Equalizer,” “Kojak” (series recurring), “Dead Air,” “The Jeffersons,” two episodes of “Baretta,” the miniseries King, “Quincy M.E.” and Marcus/Nelson Murders. Select film credits include One the One, Brother to Brother (L.A. Outfest Award for Oustanding Actor in a Feature Film, Independent Spirit Award nomination), Vig, Burnsy’s Last Call aka Booze, Flodders Does Manhattan, It’s My Turn, Newman’s Law, Believe in Me, Suits, Who’s the Man?, The Lonely Guy, Meteor and Willie Dynamite.
Irene Ratliff
Bree Welch
Bree Welch returns to The Old Globe after appearing as Bianca in The Taming of the Shrew, Irene Ratliff in Dividing the Estate and Ensemble in King Lear and The Madness of George III. Ms. Welch is an M.F.A. student in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program where she has also performed in The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Carver/Chekhov Project. Her regional credits include A Christmas Carol (Alley Theatre), The Rabbit Hole (Stages Repertory Theatre), Essential Self-Defense (Horse Head Theatre Company), Antigone and The Triumph of Love (Classical Theatre Company), One Flea Spare (Mildred’s Umbrella Theater Company), Enchanted April, The Odd Couple and The Heiress (Unity Theatre) and six seasons with Houston Shakespeare Festival where she performed in The Tempest, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Cymbeline, As You Like It, Measure for Measure and The Taming of the Shrew. She received her B.A. in Acting/Directing from The University of Houston.
Team
Playwright
Horton Foote
Horton Foote was an American playwright and screenwriter perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He had his first play, Texas Town, produced Off Broadway in 1941. His other plays include The Last of the Thorntons, The Chase, The Traveling Lady, The Trip to Bountiful, Night Seasons, Tomorrow, The Habitation of Dragons, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire, Courtship, Laura Dennis, Vernon Early, The Roads to Home, The Carpetbagger’s Children and The Day Emily Married. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta. His final play, Dividing the Estate, was produced on Broadway in 2008 and received a Tony Award nomination for Best Play. Mr. Foote was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998, was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival’s Distinguished Screenwriter Award and was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2000. Mr. Foote died on March 4, 2009.
Director
Michael Wilson
Michael Wilson returns to the Globe where he directed Horton Foote’s Dividing the Estate this past winter. He is currently represented on Broadway by the Tony-nominated revival of Gore Vidal’s The Best Man. He received Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for his direction of Foote’s three-part, nine-hour The Orphans’ Home Cycle in 2010. On Broadway, he has directed Dividing the Estate (Tony nom, Best Play), Matthew Barber’s Enchanted April (Tony nom, Best Play) and John Van Druten’s Old Acquaintance (Roundabout Theatre Company). His Off Broadway credits include the premieres of Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets, Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children (Lincoln Center Theater), Tina Howe’s Chasing Manet (Primary Stages) and Christopher Shinn’s Picked (Vineyard Theatre) and What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons), as well as the New York premieres of Jane Anderson’s Defying Gravity, Tennessee Williams’ The Red Devil Battery Sign and the RTC revival of The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. His resident theatre work includes plays and musicals at the Alley, American Repertory, Goodman, Guthrie and Long Wharf Theatres as well as Hartford Stage, where he was Artistic Director from 1998 to 2011, when Divine Rivalry had its world premiere there, and where he commissioned and developed Quiara Alegría Hudes’s 2012 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Water by the Spoonful. A recipient of the 2001 Princess Grace Statue Award, he is a Morehead Scholar graduate of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His next project is the American premiere of Christopher Shinn’s Now or Later for Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company.
Scenic Design
Jeff Cowie
Jeff Cowie received the 2010 Drama Desk and American Theatre Wing’s Henry Hewes Award for his design of Horton Foote’s three-part, nine-hour epic, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Off Broadway at Signature Theatre Company. On Broadway, he has designed Foote’s Dividing the Estate for Lincoln Center Theater. Off Broadway, he designed Foote’s Dividing the Estate and The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages) and The Carpetbagger’s Children (Lincoln Center Theater), Tennessee Williams’ The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout Theatre Company) and The Red Devil Battery Sign, Chris Shinn’s What Didn’t Happen (Playwrights Horizons), Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets, Laura Wade’s Colder Than Here and Christopher Gorman’s A Letter from Ethel Kennedy (MCC Theater), Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Drama Desk nomination) and Jane Anderson’s Defying Gravity (Laura Pels Theatre). He has designed at theatres across the country including Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alley Theatre, Berkley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage (where he designed the world premiere of Divine Rivalry), Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, New York Stage and Film and Philadelphia Theatre Company, among others. He has received an NEA/Rockefeller Foundation Award, Edward Albee Foundation Fellowship and two Connecticut Critics Circle Awards. A painter and visual artist, Mr. Cowie is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Glassell School of Art. His next stage design will be for the American premiere of Christopher Shinn’s Now or Later at Huntington Theatre Company.
Costume Design
David C. Woolard
David C. Woolard has Broadway credits that include Lysistrata Jones, West Side Story, Jane Fonda’s clothing for 33 Variations, Dividing the Estate, The Farnsworth Invention, Old Acquaintance, Ring of Fire, All Shook Up, 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal, The Smell of the Kill, The Rocky Horror Show (2001 Tony Award nomination), Voices in the Dark, The Who’s Tommy (1993 Tony and Olivier Award nominations), Bells Are Ringing, Marlene, Wait Until Dark, Horton Foote’s The Young Man From Atlanta, Sally Marr…and Her Escorts, Damn Yankees and A Few Good Men. His recent credits include The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company), The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout Theatre Company) and the opera Death and the Powers in Monte Carlo. His selected additional credits include Lucy Simon’s musical Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse), Horton Foote’s The Carpetbagger’s Children, The Stendhal Syndrome, The Day Emily Married with Estelle Parsons, The Donkey Show at American Repertory Theater, Così Fan Tutte and Madame Mao (Santa Fe Opera) and work at regional theatres including The Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre and Opera Theatre of Saint Louis.
Lighting Design
Rui Rita
Rui Rita recently designed the Globe productions of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show and Death of a Salesman. He has designed the Broadway productions of Present Laughter, Dividing the Estate, Old Acquaintance, Enchanted April, The Price and A Thousand Clowns. His Off Broadway premieres include Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hewes Design Award, Signature Theatre Company), Nightingale and Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club), Big Bill, The Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East and Ancestral Voices (Lincoln Center Theater), The Day Emily Married (Primary Stages) and Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Center). His Off Broadway revivals include The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout Theatre Company) and Engaged (OBIE Award, Theatre for a New Audience). His additional Off Broadway and regional credits include Second Stage Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, American Conservatory Theater, CENTERSTAGE, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Westport Country Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival.
Original Music and Sound Design
John Gromada
John Gromada has composed music or designed sound for more than 30 Broadway productions including this season’s Gore Vidal’s The Best Man (Drama Desk Award), Clybourne Park, Seminar, Man and Boy, The Road to Mecca and The Columnist, in addition to Next Fall, A Bronx Tale, Prelude to a Kiss, Proof, Sight Unseen, Well, Rabbit Hole, A Streetcar Named Desire, Twelve Angry Men and A Few Good Men. His other New York credits include Measure for Measure last summer in Central Park, The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Drama Desk and Henry Hewes Awards), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Olive and the Bitter Herbs, The Screwtape Letters, Shipwrecked! (Lucille Lortel Award), Secrets of the Trade, The Singing Forest, Julius Caesar, Skriker (Drama Desk Award), Machinal (Obie Award) and many more. His regional theatre credits number more than 300, including the La Jolla Playhouse productions of A Dram of Drummhicit, Surf Report and Unusual Acts of Devotion and the Geffen Playhouse production of Next Fall. www.johngromada.com.
New York Casting Director
Stephanie Klapper, CSA
Stephanie Klapper, CSA recently cast the Broadway and Off Broadway productions of The Morini Strad, Rx, Olive and the Bitter Herbs, Karen O’s Stop the Virgens, Cactus Flower, Black Tie, In Transit, Secrets of the Trade, The Temperamentals, Dividing the Estate (2009 Tony Award nomination for Best Play), Bells Are Ringing, Dinner with Friends, An Oak Tree (New York and Los Angeles, Artios Award winner) and It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues. Her National Tour credits include A Christmas Story, The Musical! She is the resident casting director for Primary Stages, New York Classical Theatre and The Pearl Theatre Company. Her select additional credits include The Cherry Sisters (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Eric Rosen and Matt Sax’s Venice, Saved! for Gary Griffin, Moisés Kaufman’s Into the Woods, The White Snake and The Arabian Nights, both for Mary Zimmerman,and Mirror of the Invisible World. Ms. Klapper has ongoing projects in New York City and for a number of regional theatres including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Adirondack Theatre Festival, Asolo Repertory Theatre, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, New Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Hartford Stage and Westport Country Playhouse. She has cast numerous independent feature films. She is a member of the Casting Society of America and League of Professional Theatre Women. Her casting assistants are Tyler Albright and Lauren O’Connell.
Stage Manager
Marisa Levy
Marisa Levy has Broadway credits including Dividing the Estate and Off Broadway credits including February House (The Public Theater), Me, Myself & I (Playwrights Horizons), On the Levee (Lincoln Center Theater), The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company), Dividing the Estate and Adrift in Macao (Primary Stages) and Single Black Female (New Professional Theatre). Her other credits include The Furniture Fire (The Drama League), The Crucible, Gem of the Ocean, Divine Rivalry, The Orphans’ Home Cycle, Dividing the Estate and To Kill a Mockingbird (Hartford Stage), The Acting Company, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival and Barrington Stage Company.
Assistant Stage Manager
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Erin Gioia Albrecht previously worked on the Globe productions of Dividing the Estate, August: Osage County, Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Working and Bell, Book and Candle. Her regional credits include Hands on a Hardbody, Milk Like Sugar, Creditors, The Third Story and No Child… (La Jolla Playhouse). Her New York credits include The Third Story (MCC Theater), Marvin’s Room (T. Schreiber Studio), The Great American Desert (78th Street Theatre Lab) and The Chekhov Dreams (Manhattan Theatre Source). Ms. Albrecht obtained her M.F.A. in Stage Management from UC San Diego.
Co-Producer
Alley Theatre
Alley Theatre is a professional resident theatre company under the direction of Artistic Director Gregory Boyd and Managing Director Dean R. Gladden now in its 65th season. Recipient of the Special Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Alley produces a wide-ranging repertoire year-round on its two stages with a Resident Company of artists, artisans and staff in its state-of-the-art complex in downtown Houston. Notable productions include Jekyll & Hyde (premiere) and Edward Albee’s The Play About the Baby, Marriage Play (U.S. premiere), Robert Wilson’s productions of Danton’s Death, When We Dead Awaken and Hamlet, the epic 10-play The Greeks and Shakespeare’s The Roman Plays (with Vanessa Redgrave and the late Corin Redgrave), premieres by Ken Ludwig, Horton Foote, Eve Ensler, Keith Reddin, Elizabeth Egloff and Herbert Siguenza and new work developed through the Alley’s New Play Initiative including Kenneth Lin’s Intelligence-Slave and Rajiv Joseph’s The Monster at the Door. www.alleytheatre.org.
