Cast
Melissa
Kimberly Parker Green
The Old Globe: All's Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, Measure for Measure. REGIONAL: Midwives, Round House Theatre; Venus, Olney Theatre Center for the Arts; A Christmas Carol, Ford's Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, National Player's Summer Tour. EDUCATION: Ms. Green has a BFA from Boston University's School for Theatre, and an MFA from The Old Globe/University of San Diego.
Mary
Nancy Robinette
recently appeared in The Savannah Disputation at The Old Globe. She has been seen Off Broadway in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek, Give Me Your Answer, Do! and Finally Flannery. Her recent regional credits include The Solid Gold Cadillac, Death of a Salesman, The Rivals, Souvenir, The Imaginary Invalid, The Silent Woman, Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Diary of Anne Frank, Twelfth Night, Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Well, Body of Water, Escape from Happiness, Wonder of the World, Fat Men in Skirts, Ivanov, The Little Foxes, Mother Courage and her Children, Frozen, Henry IV and Lady Windermere's Fan. Ms. Robinette’s film and television credits include Serial Mom, Soldier Jack, “The Hunley” and “The Day Lincoln Was Shot.” She has received numerous awards including Helen Hayes Awards, Will Award for Classical Acting and Fox Fellowship. Ms. Robinette is an Affiliate Artist at Arena Stage and the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Company Member at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and a New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect.
Margaret
Mikel Sarah Lambert
THE OLD GLOBE: Hay Fever. London: Hamlet (Ben Kingsley), Henry IV, Parts I and II, Man Equals Man, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Royal Shakes-peare Company. NEW YORK: Cyrano de Bergerac, Wit, Private Battles, The Daughter-In-Law, Richard III, Year One of the Empire, The Constant Wife. regional (Great Britain): Old Times, Victoria Regina, Elektra, Private Lives, A Taste of Honey, The Bed Sitting Room, Tom Sawyer (pantomime), A Winter's Tale, Julius Caesar. regional: Far Away, Twelfth Night, The Cherry Orchard, Marriage à la Mode, The Film Society, Undiscovered Country, Arms and the Man, Richard II, Henry V. Ms. Lambert worked in several series for the BBC: "The Mackinnons," "Play for Today," "Gangsters." She acts, directs, teaches in New York, where she also works with emerging playwrights at the Lark Play Development Center. She dedicates all performances to her sons, Patrick and Tim.
Father Murphy
James Sutorius
THE OLD GLOBE: The Price, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2007 Best Actor, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award); Lincolnesque (2006 Best Featured Actor in a Play, San Diego Theatre Critics Circle “Craig Noel” Award). BROADWAY: The Farnsworth Invention, Conversations with My Father, The Changing Room, Hamlet, The Cherry Orchard. OFF BROADWAY: Sexual Perversity in Chicago. REGIONAL: Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, Santa Barbara’s Grenada Theater; The Farnsworth Invention, La Jolla Playhouse; Hamlet, Cleveland Playhouse and Indiana Repertory Theatre; The Crucible, South Coast Repertory; Uncle Vanya, The Price, Seattle Repertory Theatre; Macbeth, University of Chicago Court Theatre; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Stage West; The Devil’s Disciple, Arizona Theatre Company; Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pasadena Playhouse; 2 Lives, George Street Playhouse; A Perfect Wedding, Kirk Douglas Theatre; A Man for All Seasons, Nevada Conservatory Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare Festival/LA; The Seagull, Matrix Theatre Company. TV: Skokie, On Wings of Eagles, A Death in Canaan, Space, Prototype, My Breast, A Question of Love, “The Andros Targets,” “CSI,” “The Unit,” “E.R.”, “The Practice,” “The X-Files,” “Ally McBeal,” “Charmed,” “Murder, She Wrote,” “Quantum Leap.”
Team
Playwright
Evan Smith
Evan Smith’s The Savannah Disputation enjoyed a successful run at New York’s Playwrights Horizons in 2009, as did his previous plays, Psych and The Uneasy Chair. His other works include Servicemen, and Daughters of Genius. His TV pilot, “Debs,” was a part of Naked TV, produced by Fox TV/Naked Angels. Mr. Smith is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and the recipient of a Whiting Award. His plays have been published by Dramatist’s Play Service, Grove Press, Dell Books TCG, Smith & Kraus and Playscripts.com.
Director
Kim Rubinstein
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation,The American Plan. Ms. Rubinstein was most recently Long Wharf Theatre's Associate Artistic Director where she directed Guys and Dolls, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Private Lives, The Santaland Diaries and The Cocktail Hour. REGIONAL: Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Portland Center Stage and San Jose Repertory Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Chicago Shakespeare Company; Love’s Labour’s Lost, Next Theatre Company; The Tempest, Southwest Repertory; The American Plan, Eloise and Ray, Roadworks Productions; Old Times, Court Theatre; Pan and Boone, Running with Scissors; Baby with the Bathwater, Round House Theatre and Berkshire Theatre Festival; Beckett Shorts, Berkshire Theatre Festival and The Buckets O'Beckett Festival. She was Associate Director with Michael Mayer and Tour Director of the national tour of Angels in America. Rubinstein is on the Acting Faculty at UCSD; other teaching credits include ten years on the acting/directing faculty at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown/Trinity Consortium, Wesleyan University, NTI at The O'Neill Center and the School at Steppenwolf. She has been very active in the development of new plays and has directed many readings and workshops at places like New Dramatists, Inc and Long Wharf Theatre. Amongst other awards for her directing and teaching, Rubinstein was a recipient of the TCG/NEA directing fellowship and was nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award.
Scenic Design
Deb O
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation. Some of her recent set and costume credits include Honk!, Young at Arts, NY; Haggadah, La Mama E.T.C.; The Greeks, Part III, Juilliard; Scrooge: The Musical, Fairmont State University, WV; Uncle Vanya, Platonov, The Lake Lucille Project; Expatriate, Culture Project; Salsalandia, La Jolla Playhouse; The Witlings, The Magis Theatre Company; Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman, Stillwater Theatre; The Lacy Project (Premiere), Yale Repertory Theatre and Ohio Theatre; Jihad: The Musical, Edinburgh International Festival; The Mistakes Madeline Made, Yale Repertory Theatre. debodesignstudio.com.
Costume Design
Judith Dolan
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation. Ms. Dolan has designed costumes for several productions for director Harold Prince including Candide for which she received a 1997 Tony Award. Another collaboration with Mr. Prince, the musical The Petrified Prince, earned her the Lucille Lortel Award and a 1995 Drama Desk nomination. Her designs have been seen in numerous companies in the U.S. and abroad including: Dublin’s The Abbey Theatre, Theatr Clwyd in Wales, The Kennedy Center, Alley Theater, Mark Taper Forum, New York City Opera and the Houston Grand Opera. In 2007, she designed costumes for LoveMusik, the story of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, directed by Hal Prince, starring Donna Murphy and Michael Ceveris, for which she received Outer Critics and Drama Desk nominations for Best Costume Design. She has directed and workshopped new plays for The Director’s Company in New York City, where she is currently developing a new music/theatre piece, Stoker, with composer Joe Jackson. Ms. Dolan is Professor of Design at UCSD.
Lighting Design
Alan Burrett
recently designed The Savannah Disputation at The Old Globe. Mr. Burrett’s work has been seen in over 30 countries. His theatre work has included 15 productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as at The Royal National Theater, Royal Opera Covent Garden, The Paris Opera, Munich Opera, the Burgtheater Vienna and 25 productions for the Los Angeles Opera. He lit large-scale arena productions of the operas Carmen and Tosca in London, Germany, Australia and Japan and the complete works of Beckett for the Gate Theatre in Dublin, New York and London. At the 1992 World’s Fair in Seville he was part of the design team for the Spanish Pavilion project and later created the lighting for the US tour of Duran Duran. Mr. Burrett is Professor of Design at UCSD.
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
Anjee Nero
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation, Cornelia, Kingdom, Jerry Herman’s Broadway, 2007 Shakespeare Festival. ELSEWHERE: Herringbone starring BD Wong and directed by Roger Rees; Tobacco Road, The Seven, The Adding Machine, Mother Courage, Current Nobody, La Jolla Playhouse; Antigone, SITI Company; Post Office workshop, Center Theatre Group; Mother Courage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Filler Up!, Adirondack Theatre Festival; Suicide, Incorporated, Wait, Jem & I, id Theater Company/Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. DANCE: Dream Report, Allyson Green Dance, featuring Lux Borreal; Garden of Forbidden Loves, Garden of Deadly Sound, IMAGOmoves & International Hungarian Theater Festival of Cluj, Romania; Only Sound Remains, Japan America Theatre; iMan, Garden Trilogy, IMAGOmoves. OTHER: Schick Machine, The Paul Dresher Ensemble; (The New) UrSonata with Steven Schick, Let There Be Light: A Tribute to Chris Parry. EDUCATION: MFA Stage Management, UCSD.
