Cast
Jim Dougherty
Jim Abele
THE OLD GLOBE: The Pleasure of His Company. Broadway: Hedda Gabler, My Thing of Love. Off-Broadway: View of the Dome, Edith Stein, The Country Girl, Any Place but Here. Regional: The Three Musketeers, Seattle Rep; State of the Union, Ford’s Theatre; The Misanthrope, McCarter Theatre; Arcadia, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; The Hairy Ape, Berkeley Rep; The Tempest, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; The Three Musketeers, Indiana Repertory; The Normal Heart, Pittsburgh Public; The Caine Mutiny Court Martial, Cincinnati Playhouse. TV: Guest starring and recurring roles on Dexter, Mad Men, Big Love, The West Wing, 24, Women’s Murder Club, Cold Case, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue, Crossing Jordan, Any Day Now, Judging Amy, Angel, among others.
Roger Henderson
Matt Biedel
THE OLD GLOBE: Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Titus Andronicus, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth. ELSEWHERE: Septimus Hodge in Arcadia, Cygnet Theatre; The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Provo Theatre Company; The Merry Wives of Windsor, A.R.T.E.; Goodbye Marianne, Young Company. FILM: Cold Play, Super Powers, Morning Glare. TV: CSI: Miami, Numb3rs, Dirt. EDUCATION: MFA in Acting from The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program.
Jessica Poole
Erin Chambers
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: Johanna in Sweeney Todd at PCPA Theatre-Fest. FILM: The Errand of Angels, The Singles 2nd Ward, Heber Holi-day, Tears of a King, Don't Look Under the Bed, The Substitute 3, Blast, Ricochet River, Free Willy 2. TV: Without a Trace, Bones, Spellbound, Close to Home, ER, Standoff, CSI:NY, Veronica Mars, Joan of Arcadia, Stargate: Atlantis, CSI, Strong Medicine, Drake and Josh. EDUCATION: Erin received her BFA in Acting from Brigham Young University. BYU theatre credits include: Cyrano, The Three Sisters, The Philadelphia Story, The Children's Hour and The Miracle Worker.
Katharine Dougherty
Ellen Karas
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. OFF-BROADWAY: Hilda, The Foreigner. REGIONAL: The Heidi Chronicles, Shakespeare in Hollywood, The Women, Expecting Isabel, Lovers and Executioners, The Revenger's Comedies, Blithe Spirit, The Plough and the Stars, Misalliance, The School for Wives, Arena Stage; Hilda, The Constant Wife, American Conservatory Theatre; The State of the Union, Ford's Theatre; The Constant Wife, Seattle Repertory Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; The School for Scandal, Blithe Spirit, Guthrie Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Rover, Three Sisters, Trip To Bountiful, Goodman Theatre; Travesties, Hyde Park, The Way of the World, Huntington Theatre. TV: Early Edition, The Dollmaker, The Untouchables, Listen To Your Heart, Crime Story, Tough Girls. EDUCATION: Ms. Karas is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Biddeford Poole
Patrick Page
THE OLD GLOBE: Cyrano De Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Pogo Poole in The Pleasure of His Company, Jeffrey Cordova in Dancing in the Dark (San Diego Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award). Broadway: Henry VIII in A Man for All Seasons (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Scar in The Lion King, Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar (with Denzel Washington), Lumiere in Beauty and the Beast, Marley in A Christmas Carol, The Kentucky Cycle. OFF-BROADWAY: Title role in Rex, Richard II. Regional: Macbeth in Macbeth and Iago in Othello (Helen Hayes Award) at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC; Sergius in Arms and the Man at Long Wharf; Henry V, Oberon, Richard III at Pioneer Theatre Company; plus leading roles (including Hamlet, Brutus, Mercutio, Benedick, Richard II, Dracula, Antony, etc.) at Seattle, Indiana and Missouri Reps, ACT, Cincinnati Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Oregon, New York, Utah, Alabama Shakespeare Festivals, and many more. Playwright: Swansong (Off-Broadway, Kennedy Center, Seattle, etc.). TV/FILM: Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, All My Children, The Substance of Fire. Favorite Role: Husband to Paige Davis. www.patrickpageonline.com.
Mackenzie Savage
Ned Schmidtke
THE OLD GLOBE: Sea of Tranquility, A Body of Water, Blue/ Orange, Pericles. BROADWAY: Aren’t We All? (also national tour). REGIONAL: Tonight at 8:30, The Antaeus Com-pany; Six Degrees of Separation, national tour; Richard II, Macbeth, Tartuffe, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Canada; The Moliere Comedies, Mark Taper Forum; Driving Miss Daisy, Utah Shakespearean Festival; The Real Thing, Court Theatre; Henry IV, parts 1 and 2, Much Ado About Nothing, The Three Musketeers, The School for Scandal, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Molly Sweeney, Indiana Repertory Theatre; Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Chicago Shakespeare; The Three Sisters, The Winter’s Tale, Goodman Theatre; Later Life, American Stage Festival; Libra, Steppenwolf Theatre; Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Nothing Sacred, Uncommon Ground, Northlight Theatre; Don Juan, Passion Play, Arena Stage; Cyrano de Bergerac, Plenty, Huntington Theatre. FILM: Accepted, Wedding Crashers, XXX 2: State of the Union, Mercury Rising, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Chain Reaction, The Relic, Music Box. TV: Medium, 24,Without a Trace, Cold Case, Huff, NYPD Blue, JAG, The West Wing, The Practice, ER, Crossing Jordan. Mr. Schmidtke is proud to have been a member of the Actors’ Equity Association for over 30 years.
Toi
Sab Shimono
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut.BROADWAY: Mame, Pacific Overtures, Ride the Winds, Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. OFF- BROADWAY: Ballad of Yachio, New York Public Theatre; The Wash, Manhattan Theatre Club; Yankee Dawg You Die, Playwrights Horizons; Music Lesson, New York Shakespeare Festival; Iago, Vivian Beaumont; Santa Anita ‘42, Chelsea Theatre; Chickencoop Chinaman, Year of the Dragon, American Place Theatre. REGIONAL: After the War, Happy End, American Conservatory Theater; Wonderland, La Jolla Playhouse; Ballad of Yachio, South Coast Rep; Last of the Suns, Yankee Dawg You Die, Ballad of Yachio, Berkeley Rep; The Wash, The Winter Dances, I.T.P.’s A Christmas Carol, Mark Taper; Barbary Coast, Orpheum Theatre; Fish Head Soup, Performance Anxiety, Hue, And the Soul Shall Dance, Gee Pop, Twelfth Night, Follies, Yankee Dawg You Die, East West Players. FILM: Old Dogs, The Shadow, Come See the Paradise, Paradise Road, Waterworld, 3 Ninjas Kick Back, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, Presumed Innocent, Blind Date, Rabbit Test, Midway. TV: Samurai Girl, Ben-10, X-Files, All American Girl, Call to Glory, Max Headrom, A Year in the Life, Gung Ho, Bring ‘Em Back Alive. TRAINING: University of California at Berkeley; Stella Adler, Irene Dailey, Aaron Frankel, Steve Book. New York Drama Desk Nominee.
Team
Playwrights
Samuel Taylor Cornelia Otis Skinner
Samuel Taylor and Cornelia Otis Skinner co-wrote the award-winning Broadway play, The Pleasure of His Company, and Skinner starred in the original Broadway production. Taylor made his Broadway playwriting debut with The Happy Time in 1950. He also wrote the plays Avanti!, Legend, and Sabrina Fair. He co-wrote the popular Audrey Hepburn film adaptation, Sabrina, earning a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award nomination. Other film credits include The Eddy Duchin Story and the Alfred Hitchcock films Vertigo and Topaz. Taylor was also nominated for a Tony Award in 1962 as a co-producer of the play No Strings, for which he also wrote the book. Skinner, an American author, playwright and actress, studied theatre at the Sorbonne in Paris before beginning her career on the stage in 1921. She was most famous for the monodramas she wrote and staged in the 1930s, including The Loves of Charles II, The Empress Eugénie and The Wives of Henry VIII. She also received critical acclaim for her roles in Lady Windermere's Fan (1946) and Paris '90 (1952). Skinner penned the best-seller Our Hearts Were Young and Gay with co-author Emily Kimbrough. Other writing credits include Madame Sarah, a biography of Sarah Bernhardt, and Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals about the Belle Époque.
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
Alexander Dodge
The Old Globe: Sammy, The Pleasure of His Company, Bell, Book and Candle, The Sisters Rosensweig and Moonlight and Magnolias. Broadway: Present Laughter (Tony Nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley and Hedda Gabler. Off Broadway: Trust, The Water’s Edge (Second Stage), The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre), Paris Commune and Measure for Pleasure (Public Theater), Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience), Observe the Sons of Ulster… (Lucille Lortel Award), Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center) and Force Continuum and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Atlantic Theater). Regional: Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, CENTERSTAGE, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, The Gate Theatre-Dublin, Geffen Playhouse, Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Paper Mill Playhouse, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Stratford Festival of Canada, Triad Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Rep. Opera: Il Trittico (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Der Waffenschmied (Munich), The Flying Dutchman (Würzburg) and Lohengrin (Budapest). Training: Yale School of Drama.
Costume Design
Fabio Toblini
THE OLD GLOBE: The Pleasure of His Company, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. OFF BROADWAY: Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Batboy: The Musical, Intrigue with Faye. NATIONAL TOURS: Godspell, Fame, Jesus Christ Superstar. OPERA: Zar und Zimmermann, Tiroler Landestheater (Austria); Macbeth, Portland Opera; L’Opera Seria, Tales of Hoffmann, Nationale Reisopera Holland. DANCE: Romeo and Juliet, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre; The Nutcracker, Ballet Arizona. REGIONAL: American Players Theatre, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre, Ford's Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis. ELSEWHERE: Creature from the Black Lagoon, Universal Studios Hollywood. EDUCATION: Istituto Marangoni, Milano; Parsons School of Design, NYC. AWARDS: 2008 Irene Sharaff Award, 2001 Lucille Lortel nomination for Batboy: The Musical. www.Fabiotoblini.com.
Lighting Design
York Kennedy
Mr. Kennedy’s designs have been seen in theaters across America and in Europe including Berkeley Rep, Seattle Repertory, American Conservatory Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Yale Rep, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Musicals and the Denver Center. He has designed over thirty productions for The Old Globe and this summer marks his sixth season as resident lighting designer for the Shakespeare Festival. Awards for theatrical lighting design include the Dramalogue, San Diego Critics Circle, Back Stage West Garland, Arizoni Theatre Award and the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. In the dance world he has designed for Malashock Dance, Brian Webb and Tracey Rhodes. As an architectural lighting designer he has designed both nationally and internationally numerous themed environments, theme park, residential, retail, restaurant and museum projects including the Sony Metreon Sendak Playspace in San Francisco, Warner Bros. Movie World in Madrid, Le Centre de Loisirs in Morocco and The LEGO Racers 4D attraction in Germany, Denmark, England and the U.S.A. He is a graduate of the California Institute for the Arts and the Yale 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.
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
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.
