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Enchanted April Cast Biographies:

Finnerty Steeves (Lotty Wilton) has appeared in New York in Almost, Maine at the Daryl Roth Theatre, Marion Bridge at Urban Stages, Tumor with Lincoln Center's Directors Lab and Diary of a Chambermaid at Dramahaus.  Regionally, she has appeared in The Norman Conquests at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Hedda Gabler at American Conservatory Theatre, Lost in Yonkers at Guthrie Theater, Wonder of the World at Barrington Stage, Picnic at CENTERSTAGE, The Garden of Hannah List and Private Eyes at Florida Stage and The Diary of Anne Frank and The Heiress at Caldwell Theater Company.  Her film and television credits include Farlanders, Calling It Quits, The Great New Wonderful, Filmic Achievement, Water Under the Bridge, Law & Order and The Sopranos.  Ms. Steeves received her MFA from American Conservatory Theatre.

Matthew Floyd Miller (Mellersh Wilton) appeared on Broadway in Not About Nightingales at Circle in the Square and The Invention of Love at Lincoln Center Theatre. Off-Broadway, he has been seen in Of Mice and Men at Urban Stages, Letters from Cuba at Signature Theatre and The Seagull at NYU Director's LabHis regional credits include Katurian in The Pillowman (ACT Theatre), This Wonderful Life (a one-man stage adaptation of the Frank Capra film at Portland Center Stage), The Matchmaker (Ford’s Theatre), Theophilus North (Rose Robison Cowen Fellow, world premiere, Arena Stage/Geva Theatre Center), A Prayer For Owen Meany (American premiere, Playmakers Repertory Company), Desire Under The Elms (1999 Dean Goodman Choice, Bay Area Theatre Award, San Jose Repertory Theatre) and The Bald Soprano (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). His film work includes End of the Line, Pop Rocks (Audience Award, 2007 Breckenridge Film Festival) and Telegenic.  He received his MFA in Acting from New York University.

Kathryn Meisle (Rose Arnott) most recently appeared as Raymonde in A Flea in her Ear at Williamstown Theater Festival.  Her Broadway credits include A Touch of the Poet, The Constant Wife, Tartuffe (Tony Award nomination and Calloway Award), London Assurance, The Rehearsal and Racing Demon.  Off-Broadway appearances include Living Out (Second Stage), Old Money (Lincoln Center Theater), What You Get and What You Expect, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told (New York Theatre Workshop) and Twelfth Night, As You Like It (Drama Desk nomination) and Othello (New York Shakespeare Festival). Recent regional theatre appearances include The Real Thing and The Three Sisters at Guthrie Theater and the title role in Emily Mann’s Mrs. Packard at McCarter Theatre Center and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Film and television credits include Grey’s Anatomy, Damages, New Amsterdam, Brothers & Sisters, NYPD Blue, CSI Miami, Without a Trace, The Guardian, Law & Order: SVU, Oz, You’ve Got Mail, The Shaft and Rosewood.

Al Espinosa (Frederick Arnott) returns to Arizona Theatre Company where he was last seen as Juan Julian in Anna in the Tropics. He appeared most recently as Lennie in Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse.  On Broadway, he has been seen in Getting Away with Murder and Sacrilege. Off-Broadway, he has appeared in As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and Santa Concepcion at New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theatre and The Knee Desires the Dirt at WP&P. Mr. Espinosa’s regional credits include Carlos in Eduardo Machado’s The Cook at Seattle Repertory Theatre as well as appearances at McCarter Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, The Old Globe, Yale Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage and Dallas Theater Center, among others. His film and television work includes Steven Soderbergh’s Guerilla (upcoming), Tick (upcoming), Path to Paradise, Fidel (mini-series), Numb3rs, House (recurring role), NCIS, Century City, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, and NYPD Blue, among others. He received his BFA from Southern Methodist University and his MFA from Yale School of Drama.

Monette Magrath (Lady Caroline) has appeared in New York productions of The Seagull; Come Back to the Five & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean;and The Stronger.  Her regional credits include Stick Fly at McCarter Theatre Center, Book of Days at Arena Stage, The Night is a Child (world premiere) at Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Enchanted April at The Cleveland Play House, The Ice-Breaker and The Laramie Project at The Laguna Playhouse and The Constant Wife, As You Like It, It’s a Wonderful Life, Private Lives, Enchanted April and Les Liaisons Dangereuses at Pasadena Playhouse.  Other west coast credits include All My Sons for McCoy/Rigby Entertainment, Safe in Hell at South Coast Repertory (Playwright’s Fest), The Glass Menagerie for CCAP @ Boston Court.  Her television credits include Outpost and Redhanded.  Her film credits include The Other Sister, The Spirit Hunter, Looking for Mr. Miyagi, Two Girls Walk into a Bar… and Jake’s Closet.  Ms. Magrath holds a BFA from New York University, TischSchool of the Arts.

Tony Roach (Antony Wilding) is making his ATC debut.  His New York credits include the roles of Officer/Brett Arrow In Cop Out (NY Fringe) and Glen in The Life I’ve Chosen at the Kevin Zaitz Theatre. Regionally, he has played Cleante in The Imaginary Invalid (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Pip/Theo in Three Days of Rain, (Vermont Stage Company), Musician/Franklin in Fair & Tender Ladies (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Claudio in Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Festival of St. Louis), Fred in A Christmas Carol, (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Sparky Watts in Far East (Stamford Theatre Works), Paris/Romeo in Romeo & Juliet (American Repertory Theatre), Nick in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Carl Jr. in Stage Blood (Kitchen Theatre Company) and Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Birmingham Festival Theatre).  Internationally, he has appeared as Stavrogin in Dostoevsky's Devil's and Pentheus in Bacchae (Moscow Art Theatre Second Stage).  He received his MFA from the ART/MXAT Institute at Harvard University.

Patricia Kilgarriff (Mrs. Graves) has appeared on Broadway in Steel Magnolias, Tartuffe, James Joyce's The Dead, A Delicate Balance, Night Must Fall, A Small Family Business, La Bête, Lettice and Lovage, Shirley Valentine, Noises Off! (also National Tour) and The Man Who Had Three Arms.  Off-Broadway, she has been seen in Time and Again, Kinderstransport, The Art of Success, Spread Eagle, London Suite, All's Well That Ends Well and Counting the Ways.  Ms. Kilgarriff’s regional appearances include A Woman of No Importance (Connecticut Critics Outstanding Performance Award), Talking Heads, My Fair Lady, Mary Stuart, Happy Days (directed by Edward Albee), Shirley Valentine (Drammy Award), Paddywack, A Woman of No Importance (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Tartuffe, An Ideal Husband, Stepping Out and The Importance of Being Ernest.  She has been seen in The Muppets Take Manhattan and The Real Blonde and in the television shows Law & Order; Law & Order SVU; Second Honeymoon; Loving; All My Children and Love, Sydney.

Lynne Soffer (Costanza/Dialect Coach) most recently appereared in
Heartbreak House at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Rabbit Hole at San Jose Repertory Theatre, Ambition Facing West at Theaterworks in California. She has also acted in productions with the 29th Street Project and Direct Theatre (NYC), American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco Opera, California Shakespeare Theater, Sacramento Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Word for Word,  PCPA Theaterfest, The Alaska Repertory Theater, Sherwood Shakespeare Festival and Acadia Repertory Theatre, among others.   She has served as dialect and/or text  coach on over 165 productions for theaters including  American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Theater, The Old Globe, Dallas Theater Center, Arena Stage, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, PCPA Theaterfest and the world premiere of Moisés Kaufman's The Laramie Project at the Denver Center Theatre Company and in New York City.  Ms. Soffer also coached actors for the films Metro, Duets, The Land of Milk and Honey and for the TV series America's Most Wanted.

Timothy Near (Director) recently concluded 21 years of service as Artistic Director of San Jose Repertory Theatre during which time she directed over 30 plays and led the company to be among the most respected and artistically adventurous resident theatres in the country. In the spring of 2008, she left her Artistic Director position to resume her career as a free lance director. Ms. Near has directed at numerous theatres throughout the U.S., including Intiman Theatre, ACT Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The New York Shakespeare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Center Repertory Theatre and Portland Center Stage. She has directed two operas, The Crucible and Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera San Jose. She is also an actress and is the recipient of New York’s Obie Award for her performance in Still Life.

Kent Dorsey (Scenic Designer) returns to ATC where he was the Scenic Designer for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, For Better or Worse, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Work Song (ariZoni Award), How the Other Half Loves, Glengarry Glen Ross, Arms and the Man, Steel Magnolias, The Tempest, My Fair Lady and The Rainmaker.  He designed both scenery and lighting for ATC’s Ain’t Misbehaving and was the Lighting Designer for Misalliance, Fool for Love and What the Butler Saw.  His New York credits include About Time, Alligator Tales, Another Antigone, The Cocktail Hour, Silence, Suds and Yankee Dawg You Die. Mr. Dorsey has designed scenery and/or lighting on over 95 productions for The Old Globe.  He has also designed for most of the major resident theatre companies.  Mr. Dorsey designed scenery and lighting for Silence Chinmoku, a world premiere by Subaru Acting Company (Tokyo) and Milwaukee Repertory Theater.  Opera credits include the world premiere of The Conquistador at San Diego Opera, The Lighthouse at San Diego Opera and Chicago Opera Theatre, The Merry Widow at Opera San Jose, Lucia di Lammermoor at Greensboro Opera and The Flying Dutchman at Virginia Opera and La Boheme  and Samson et Dalila for Palm Beach Opera. 

Maggie Morgan (Costume Designer) has designed costumes in New York for Soho Repertory Theatre, HB Playwrights and NADA, as well as A Little Traveling Music at The Hideaway Room @ Helen’s (Nightlife Award).  Her recent west coast credits include the national tour of The Caine Mutiny for L.A. Theatre Works, Sunset Boulevard at the Hollywood Bowl, Mask: a New Musical for Pasadena Playhouse, Sleeping Beauty Wakes for Deaf/West at The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Bach at Leipzig for South Coast Repertory and Demonology and The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite (Dramalogue Award) for the Mark Taper Forum.  Regional credits include The Haunting of Winchester for San Jose Repertory Theatre, as well as designs for Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, Sacramento Theatre Company, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre.  Ms. Morgan designed the costumes for the films Sex and a Girl and Breathing Hard and worked as Assistant Costume Designer on Mona Lisa Smile, Wag the Dog, The Grinch, Casino, Men In Black and A Bronx Tale. She is on the faculty at University of California, Davis.

David Lee Cuthbert (Lighting Designer) designed the Broadway, National and International productions of Billy Crystal’s 700 Sundays.  He also designed the national tour of The History (and Mystery) of the Universe and two tours with The New Pickle Family Circus.  Internationally, he designed Terminal, directed by Joseph Chaikin.  Regionally, his design credits include The Piano Lesson, Art and Hannah and Martin at San Jose Repertory Theatre, An Evening with Billy Crystal, I Think I Like Girls and A Feast of Fools at La Jolla Playhouse and Zoot Suit at San Diego Repertory Theatre, where he also conceived and was Production Designer for A Christmas Carol 1941.   Other theatres where Mr. Cuthbert has designed include The Old Globe, Sledgehammer Theatre, South Coast Repertory, The Group Theatre, Magic Theatre, ACT Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Syracuse Stage and PS122.  Mr. Cuthbert is a Professor of Design and Theatre Department Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Roberta Carlson (Composer) is a frequent visitor to Arizona Theatre Company.  She has composed scores for many productions at ATC, including Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Macbeth, Over the Moon, As You Like It, Inventing van Gogh, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dracula, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure and many others. Her work has also been heard at The Children's Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre and San Jose Repertory Theatre, as well as Deeply Rooted Dance Company in Chicago and numerous theaters in Minneapolis where she makes her home.

T. Greg Squires (Assistant Light Designer) designed ATC’s Permanent Collection and Tuesdays with Morrie. He has re-created lighting designs for John Lasiter (Ella), Don Darnutzer (2 Pianos, 4 Hands; The Immigrant and Hank Williams: Lost Highway), Dennis Parichy (A Moon for the Misbegotten and Talley’s Folley), York Kennedy (For Better or Worse), Peter Maradudin (Anna in the Tropics), Allen Lee Hughes (Dirty Blonde) and Michael Philippi (Pride and Prejudice).  He made his international debut with Toni Press-Coffman’s Two Days of Grace at Middleham at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2000 in Scotland.  In addition to ATC, Mr. Squires has designed lights and sound for the Pasadena Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, Creede Repertory Theatre, Borderlands Theater and Childsplay, where he will design sound this season for Peter and the Wolf.

Glen Bruner (Production Stage Manager) is in his twelfth season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Pajama Game, Touch the Names, Molly’s Delicious, Twelfth Night, Bad Dates, Pride and Prejudice, The Pirates of Penzance, Copenhagen, The Fantasticks, Much Ado About Nothing, 2 Pianos 4 Hands and the world premieres of Steven Dietz’s Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Pasadena Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Mañana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the Assistant Stage Manager for the world premiere of On the Waterfront at The Cleveland Play House, and Production Stage Manager for the Off-Broadway premiere of Alan Ayckbourn’s Season’s Greetings. Mr. Bruner has also been the voice for many radio and television commercials and was an announcer for Texas Public Radio in his hometown of San Antonio. Mr. Bruner has been a member of Actors' Equity Association since 1981.