Cast
The Woman
Jordan Baker
Jordan Baker has appeared on Broadway in Suddenly, Last Summer with Elizabeth Ashley (Theatre World Award) and Off Broadway in Three Tall Women (original New York cast), Milk (HERE Arts Center), Is Life Worth Living? (Mint Theater Company) and Night Sky (Baruch Performing Arts Center). Her regional credits include Defiance (Pasadena Playhouse), The Philadelphia Story (Royal Exchange Theatre in England), Othello with Avery Brooks and Andre Braugher (Folger Theatre), The Merry Wives of Windsor with Jane Carr and Dakin Matthews and directed by Roger Rees and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow (The Old Globe), Spinning Into Butter (Laguna Playhouse) and Separation (George Street Playhouse). Ms. Baker has been featured in the films Another Earth (2011 Sundance Film Festival Dramatic Competition), The David Dance, Childless, Paparazzi, City Hall, The Out-of-Towners, Escape from L.A., Love Potion No. 9 and Summersault. Her television credits include “The New Adventures of Old Christine” (recurring), “Law & Order” (recurring), “The O.C.” (recurring), “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (recurring), “Hiller and Diller” (series regular), “Medium,” “Cold Case,” “Ugly Betty,” “Mental,” “Shark,” “Num3ers” and “Without a Trace.” With love to Kevin my “glance from God.”
Willy Loman
Jeffrey DeMunn
Jeffrey DeMunn has enjoyed a career that encompasses theatre, film and television. He is known as a favorite of writer/producer/director Frank Darabont, who has cast him in The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Majestic and Stephen King's The Mist, among others, including the 1988 remake of The Blob and the current AMC hit television series “The Walking Dead,” in which he plays the role of Dale. His other film credits include Burn After Reading, Shelter, Cayman Went, Hollywoodland, The X-Files Movie, Phenomenon and Blaze as well as earlier appearances in Resurrection and Frances. His television work has been honored with an Emmy nomination and a Cable Ace Award for his role as Andrei Chikatilo in Citizen X. In addition to his recurring role on “Law & Order” and numerous guest starring roles on episodic series, he has starred or been featured in Empire Falls, Our Town, Noriega, Hiroshima, Storm of the Century, A Christmas Memory and Barbarians at the Gate. Mr. DeMunn was nominated for a Tony for his performance in K2 on Broadway. His other Broadway credits are Our Town, The Price, Bent, Spoils of War and Sleight of Hand. Recently he was seen as Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Dallas Theater Center. His Off Broadway and regional appearances include Stuff Happens, Last Days of Judas Iscariot, A Midsummer Night's Dream and A Prayer for My Daughter (Drama Desk nomination), all with The Public Theater. In addition, both regionally and Off Broadway, he has been seen in King Lear, Geometry of Fire, A Picasso, Gunshy, The Hands of Its Enemy, The Country Girl and Modigliani. Mr. DeMunn was born and ra
Bernard
Ben Diskant
Ben Diskant has previously appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project. At the Globe he has appeared in Death of a Salesman, King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Speech and Debate (TheaterWorks, Hartford), The History Boys (The Studio Theatre), Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and the National Tour of Freedom Train (TheatreworksUSA). Mr. Diskant holds a Bachelor’s of Music and a B.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University.
Stanley
Jesse Jensen
Jesse Jensen was recently featured at The Old Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and Amadeus as well as Death of a Salesman directed by Pam MacKinnon. He has also appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of Fathers and Sons, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale and Dear Harvey. His regional credits include The Heiress (Long Beach Playhouse), West Side Story (Musical Theater Los Angeles), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival) and the National Tour of The Art of Being. His Los Angeles credits include Brilliant Traces, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Feeding the Moonfish (Front Porch Players) and the title role in Hamlet (Loyola Marymount University). His film and television credits include Wasted, Annabelle, Nomad and Charley as well as primetime roles on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Cane” and “Cold Case.” In addition to acting Mr. Jensen has written, produced, and directed for theatre and film. He received a B.A. in Film Production with a minor in Theater Arts from Loyola Marymount University. www.jessejensen.net.
Linda
Robin Moseley
Robin Moseley was last seen at the Globe in Death of a Salesman. She spent six years with the Alley Theatre in Houston, Texas and two years with the Denver Center Theatre Company and has appeared at over 15 regional theatres. Her Broadway credits include Pygmalion (Roundabout Theatre Company) and standby for Grace in Faith Healer (Booth Theatre). She has appeared Off Broadway as Vi in The Memory of Water and Judith in Aristocrats (Manhattan Theatre Club), Lady Faulconbridge in King John (Delacorte Theater), Belinda in Seasons Greetings (The Joyce Theater) and Mildred in The Glass Cage (Mint Theater Company). Ms. Moseley’s television credits include “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “As the World Turns.” Her film credits include The Sky’s No Limit, Manhunter and The Juror. Ms. Moseley’s favorite roles have included Amanda in The Glass Menagerie (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco), Maureen in The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Denver Center Theatre Company), Miss Lucy in Sweet Bird of Youth (The Shakespeare Theatre Company) and Mary Todd Lincoln in The Heavens are Hung in Black (Ford’s Theatre). She most recently appeared with the Philadelphia Theatre Company in their production of The Outgoing Tide.
Happy
Tyler Pierce
Tyler Pierce has appeared in the tours of Legends with Joan Collins and Linda Evans, Barriers and A Midsummer Night's Dream. His regional theatre credits include A Streetcar Named Desire (Guthrie Theater), The Night is a Child (world premiere, Pasadena Playhouse and Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Crime and Punishment (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Dracula and A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Macbeth, Pericles, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Lorenzaccio and The Tempest (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Fat Pig and The Internationalist (regional premieres, The Studio Theatre) and the Youth Ink! High School Playwriting Residency Program (McCarter Theatre). Mr. Pierce’s Off Broadway credits include Theatre at St. Clement’s, Circle East Theater Company, New York Classical Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Atlantic Theater Company, Theatre for a New Audience, Lark Theatre Company, New Dramatists and New Georges. He has appeared in the films The Kiss, Best Friends, A Professional, Alchera, Modern Day Arranged Marriage and The Rub. His television credits include “Kidnapped,” “The Guiding Light,” “Third Watch,” “Runner” (pilot) and Asteroid.
Charley
John Procaccino
John Procaccino has appeared on Broadway playing leading roles in An American Daughter, A Thousand Clowns and Conversations With My Father starring Judd Hirsch, and he understudied Alan Alda in Art. He has also performed Off Broadway at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Procaccino co-starred with Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson in the premiere of Anne Meara's play Down the Garden Paths at Long Wharf Theatre. Also at Long Wharf, he appeared in We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, Sylvia and as James Tyrone in A Moon for the Misbegotten. His other theatre work includes Good Boys and True and Art (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), All the Kings Men directed by Pam MacKinnon, Prayer for My Enemy, Arms and the Man, The Singing Forest and Nora (Intiman Theatre), The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Tartuffe, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Long Day's Journey Into Night and The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Seattle Repertory Theatre, company member), A Moon for the Misbegotten, The Night of the Iguana, Grand Magic, Dinner with Friends, Side Man, The Crucible and his solo performance in Wallace Shawn's The Fever (A Contemporary Theatre), CENTERSTAGE and The Old Globe. His film and television credits include The Runner Stumbles, Three Fugitives, Magic in the Water, Born to Be Wild, “Law & Order,” “NYPD Blue,” “Northern Exposure” and the Stephen King miniseries Rose Red.
Jenny, Letta
Deborah Radloff
Deborah Radloff has previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus and Death of a Salesman and was also seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. stagings of Twelfth Night, Fathers and Sons and The Winter’s Tale. Her Off Broadway credits include Girls Night: The Musical (Sophia’s Downstairs Cabaret) and Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusier). She has appeared regionally in The Yiddish Are Coming: The Chosen Musical (world premiere, Denver Civic Theatre), Pericles, Othello, Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival) and A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). She received her B.F.A. in Acting from The University of Nebraska–Omaha.
Biff
Lucas Caleb Rooney
Lucas Caleb Rooney has appeared in the Globe productions Death of a Salesman, All My Sons, Compleat Female Stage Beauty and Twelfth Night. He has appeared on Broadway in The Country Girl with Morgan Freeman and Frances McDormand, directed by Mike Nichols, and Henry IV with Kevin Kline and Ethan Hawke, directed by Jack O’Brien. His Off Broadway credits include Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in the Park), The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature Theatre Company), Yellow Face (The Public Theater), Creation (Theatre 315), Polish Play (Katharsis Theater Company), She Stoops to Conquer (Irish Repertory Theatre) and Mimesophobia (The Beckett Theatre). Regionally he has appeared in The Orphan’s Home Cycle and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Hartford Stage), Yellow Face (Mark Taper Forum), The Tempest (Franklin Stage Company), A Streetcar Named Desire (Cleveland Play House) and Dirty Blonde (Pittsburgh Public Theater). Mr. Rooney’s television credits include “Boardwalk Empire,” “Person of Interest,” “Cold Case,” “CSI: Miami,” “Journeyman,” “Law & Order,” “Kidnapped” and “Six Degrees.” He has appeared in the films The Miracle of Belle Isle, On Broadway and One Last Thing. He received an M.F.A. from the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program. Mr. Rooney is the co-founder of an organization that does theatre with street kids in Madagascar: www.zaraaina.org.
Miss Forsythe
Ryman Sneed
Ryman Sneed has appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project and in The Old Globe productions of Death of a Salesman, King Lear and The Madness of George III. Her Off Broadway and other New York credits include None of the Above and The Tempest. Ms. Sneed holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College. www.RymanSneed.com.
Uncle Ben
Adrian Sparks
Adrian Sparks has, over the past 40 years, played leading roles in a wide variety of theatre pieces across the country, appearing on the stages of such theatres as Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Stage West, CENTERSTAGE, Indiana Repertory Theatre, PAF Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. This is Mr. Sparks’ third year as a member of Adrian Noble’s Festival company at the Globe. During the 2011 season he performed the roles of Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and Stephano the drunken butler in The Tempest. In addition to his 2010 Festival assignments in Taming of the Shrew, King Lear and The Madness of George III, Globe audiences have seen him portray Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman. Mr. Sparks first came to The Old Globe in 1976 doing Troilus and Cressida, Othello and playing Corin in As You Like It (a role he is reprising over 35 years later). His most recent theatrical engagement was playing Leonato in Ethan McSweeney’s version of Much Ado About Nothing with The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. For the camera, Mr. Sparks has portrayed cowboys, doctors, soldiers, professors, dads, best friends and evil villains in more than 75 film and television projects. www.AdrianSparks.com.
Howard Wagner, 2nd Waiter
Jonathan Spivey
Jonathan Spivey was recently seen at the Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus and Death of a Salesman and in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest and Dear Harvey. His New York and regional credits include The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cyrano de Bergerac, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Around the World in 80 Days (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Black Gold (Phoenix Theatre), Dogpark: The Musical (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Souvenir, The Imaginary Invalid, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Room Service, The Foreigner, Kiss Me, Kate and Forever Plaid (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Mr. Spivey is a Second City-trained improv artist, a jazz pianist, the co-author of the musical comedy Murphy’s Law and the recipient of the 2011 Craig Noel MFA Fellowship. He is a narrator and voice actor for Vivabook’s e-books.
Team
Author
Arthur Miller
Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was born in New York City and studied at the University of Michigan. His plays include The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), All My Sons (1947), Death of a Salesman (1949), The Crucible (1953), A View from the Bridge and A Memory of Two Mondays (1955), After the Fall (1964), Incident at Vichy (1964), The Price (1968), The Creation of the World and Other Business (1972), The Archbishop's Ceiling (1977), The American Clock (1980) and Playing for Time. Later plays include The Ride Down Mt. Morgan (1991), The Last Yankee (1993), Broken Glass (1994), Mr. Peters’ Connections (1998), Resurrection Blues (2002), and Finishing the Picture (2004). Other works include Focus, a novel (1945), The Misfits, a screenplay (1960) and the texts for In Russia (1969), In the Country (1977) and Chinese Encounters (1979), three books in collaboration with his wife, photographer Inge Morath. Memoirs include Salesman in Beijing (1984) and Timebends, an autobiography (1988). Short fiction includes the collection I Don’t Need You Anymore (1967), the novella Homely Girl, a Life (1995) and Presence: Stories (2007). He was awarded the Avery Hopwood Award for Playwriting at University of Michigan in 1936. He twice won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, received two Emmy Awards and three Tony Awards for his plays, as well as a Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement. He also won an Obie Award, a BBC Best Play Award, the George Foster Peabody Award, a Gold Medal for Drama from the National Institute of Arts and Letters, the Literary Lion Award from the New York Public Library, the John F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Algur Meadows Award. He was named Jefferson Lecturer for the National Endowmen
Director
Pam MacKinnon
Pam MacKinnon is an Obie and Lilly Award-winning New York-based director. Recent productions include premieres of Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park (Playwrights Horizons), Rachel Axler's Smudge (Women's Project) and Cusi Cram's A Lifetime Burning (Primary Stages), as well as Othello (Shakespeare Santa Cruz) and Gina Gionfriddo's Becky Shaw (South Coast Repertory). She is a longtime interpreter of the plays of Edward Albee, having directed A Delicate Balance (Arena Stage), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? (Alley Theatre and The Vienna Theatre Company) and The Play About the Baby (Philadelphia Theatre Company and Goodman Theatre), as well as premieres of At Home at the Zoo (formerly called Peter and Jerry at Hartford Stage and Second Stage Theatre), Occupant (Signature Theatre Company) and this season’s Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Arena Stage). Ms. MacKinnon’s additional recent work includes premieres of Roberto Aguire Sacasa's Good Boys and True (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Itamar Moses' The Four of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club and The Old Globe), Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair (South Coast Repertory), Jason Grote's Maria/Stuart (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company) and Itamar Moses' Bach at Leipzig (New York Theatre Workshop and Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Later this season she is slated to direct premieres of Itamar Moses' Completeness (South Coast Repertory) and David Wiener's Extraordinary Chambers (Geffen Playhouse). She is a Drama League and Lincoln Center Directors' Lab alumna and a board member of the New York downtown company Clubbed Thumb, dedicated to new American work.
Scenic Design
Marion Williams
Marion Williams is making her Old Globe debut. Her New York credits include Burn This and Savage in Limbo (both with Pam MacKinnon, The Julliard School), The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd (Mint Theater Company) and the Off Broadway productions of Filumena, The Moonlight Room and The Mystery of Attraction. Her international credits include The Turn of the Screw in Leipzig, Germany. Regionally Ms. Williams has designed ReEntry (CENTERSTAGE), The Importance of Being Earnest, Opus, Doubt, Topdog/Underdog, The Illusion, The Underpants, Yellowman, Proof and others (PlayMakers Repertory Company), Tartuffe, Amadeus, The Taming of the Shrew and Othello (Sacramento Theatre Company), Othello, Of Mice and Men, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Cherry Orchard and others (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), The Glass Menagerie, 26 Miles, ReEntry and Barefoot in the Park (Two River Theater Company), Barrington Stage Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Round House and Williamstown Theatre Festival, among others. Her opera credits include The Juilliard School, Manhattan School of Music and the University of Washington. Her designs for dance include Louisville Ballet, Limón Dance Company, Parsons Dance Company, The Juilliard School, Cincinnati Ballet and PS 122. Upcoming productions include Crimes of the Heart (McCarter Theatre), Spoon Lake Blues (Alliance Theatre) and Stravinsky’s Firebird (Cincinnati Ballet). Ms. Williams earned an M.F.A. from the University of Washington, Seattle, received a 2004 Princess Grace Award and is a 2007 PGF grant recipient.
Costume Design
Mathew J. LeFebvre
Mathew J. LeFebvre has designed regionally for Two Trains Running (Signature Theatre Company), Bach at Leipzig (New York Theatre Workshop), over 20 productions including A Christmas Carol, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Night of the Iguana, Pride and Prejudice, Sweeney Todd, Wintertime (scenery and costumes), 1776 and She Loves Me at the Guthrie Theater, Tartuffe, A Flea in Her Ear and Bach at Leipzig (Milwaukee Repertory Theater), Jitney, A Raisin in the Sun and Two Trains Running (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, A Raisin in the Sun, Fences, Get Ready and Gem of the Ocean (scenery and costumes), among others (Penumbra Theatre Company), Love’s Labour’s Lost and Ring Round the Moon (American Players Theatre) and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Geffen Playhouse). His other credits include Minnesota Opera, The Children’s Theatre Company, Cleveland Play House, Trinity Repertory Company, Arizona Theatre Company, The Joyce Theater, The Acting Company, Theatre de la Jeune Lune and Mixed Blood Theatre. Mr. LeFebvre is a professor and head of the design/technology program at the University of Minnesota.
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.
Sound Design
Jeremy J. Lee
Jeremy J. Lee previously designed the Globe production of Death of a Salesman. His international credits include designing Continental Divide (London and Birmingham), associate designing Bridge Project 2010 World Tour and assistant designing Tarzan (Holland) and 42nd Street (Moscow). His Broadway credits include associate designer for Mary Stuart and Talk Radio. He has designed for the Off Broadway productions of The Ohmies, Into the Hazard [Henry 5] and Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusier), The Thugs (Soho Repertory Theater), Song for New York (Mabou Mines), All the Wrong Reasons (New York Theatre Workshop) and Pretty Chin Up (LAByrinth Theater Company). Mr. Lee’s regional credits include American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature Theatre Company, 5th Avenue Theatre and Sundance Institute. His awards include the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award, Austin Critics’ Table Award and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. He also teaches at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Stage Manager
Lavinia Henley
Lavinia Henley most recently stage managed the Globe’s productions of Death of a Salesman directed by Pam MacKinnon and The Last Romance starring Marion Ross. Prior credits include over 20 shows with The Old Globe, both world premieres and classics, working with directors including Jack O’Brien, Craig Noel and John Houseman. Her other regional credits include the American Repertory Theater, Goodman Theatre and Court Theatre in Chicago, as well as the long-running production of Woody Guthrie’s American Song for Chicago’s Briar Street Theatre. Ms. Henley also works as a corporate event producer, supervising business meeting programs for up to 15,000 people in venues across the country and internationally.
