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Erika Rolfsrud (Haley) is working with ATC for the first time. She lives in New York City, where some of her credits include The Glory of Living (starring Anna Paquin, directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, MCC Theater), How I Learned to Drive (New Century Theatre), Love’s Fire (The Public Theater; The Pit at the Barbican, London, The Acting Company), O Pioneers!, Romeo & Juliet, Comedy of Errors (New York and National Tour, The Acting Company, two seasons) and Eclipsed (The Irish Repertory). Her regional theatre credits including the East Coast premiere of Outrage (The Wilma Theater, Philadelphia), Jumpers (ACT Theatre), The Dazzle (Hartford Theatreworks), The Seagull, Cymbeline, Henry IV parts 1 & 2, Dancing at Lughnasa, Macbeth (The Old Globe, San Diego), Much Ado About Nothing (Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Cleveland), The Good Times Are Killing Me (Seattle Repertory Theatre), The Art of Murder (American Players Theatre) and the Shakespeare festivals of Utah, Seattle and Idaho. She has been seen on Third Watch and on All My Children, and appeared in the short film Alone (www.alone-themovie.com). Ms. Rolfsrud received her MFA in acting from the USD/Old Globe Theatre Program. With love for Aunt Grace.
Susan Riley Stevens (understudy Haley) played Beth this summer in Dinner with Friends and Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband for the River Rep at the Ivory-ton Playhouse. Some recent favorite roles include Alexandrina in The Uneasy Chair with 1812 Productions, (Barrymore Award nomination, best ensemble), Frankie in Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune for Delaware Theatre Company, Kari in The Pavilion at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Maggie in Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, and Tracy in The Philadelphia Story with the Asolo Theatre Company, Anna in Closer, and Nan/Lina in Three Days of Rain at the Arden Theatre Company, (both directed by Aaron Posner). Other regional credits include A Delicate Balance at People’s Light and Theatre Company, Nora and Tales From Washington Irving with Portland Stage Company, Alls Well That Ends Well for the Dallas Theater Center, The Beaux Stratagem and Uncle Vanya at Yale Repertory Theatre, Twelfth Night and Titus Andronicus with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. Her film and television credits include Going, Going, Gone and Guiding Light. Ms. Stevens is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Philadelphia with her husband, actor Greg Wood.
The Creative Team
Theresa Rebeck (Playwright) Her first published play Spike Heels (1992), was produced at Second City Stage in New York with Kevin Bacon and Tony Goldwyn in the principal roles. In 2003, her play Ominum Gatherum, co-written with Alexandra Gersten-Vassilaros, was a hit at the Humana Festival in Louisville and went on to become a Pulitzer Prize for Drama finalist. Her many other playwriting credits include The Bells (2005), Dollhouse (2000), Abstract Expression, View of the Dome, Sunday on the Rocks, The Family of Mann and The Two Orphans. Ms. Rebeck is also acclaimed for her writing for TV and film. Her work on NYPD Blue won the Writer’s Guild of America Award for Episodic Drama, the Hispanic Images Imagine Award, and a Peabody Award. Her further television credits include the HBO series Dream On, Brooklyn Bridge, Third Watch, and L.A. Law, and she was a co-executive producer and writer of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Her film work includes writing credits for Harriet the Spy, Gossip and Catwoman. She is a graduate of Brandeis University, from which she received three degrees, an MA, an MFA in Dramatic Writing, and a PhD in Victorian melodrama.
Aaron Posner (Director) is a director, adaptor and teacher, as well as a consultant for non-profit and philanthropic organizations. He is the co-founder and resident director of Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company, where he has directed more than 40 productions over the last 17 years including nine of his original adaptations from literature, and, most recently, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead and Steve Martin’s The Underpants. He also directs nationally at The Folger Theatre (where he recently received a Helen Hayes Award for his direction of The Two Gentlemen of Verona), Seattle Repertory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and many, many others. As a playwright/adaptor he won a Barrymore Award for Outstanding New Play for his 1998 adaptation of Chaim Potok’s The Chosen at the Arden.This play has gone on to more than 25 productions in theatres big and small, including the Arizona Jewish Theatre in Phoenix. Future productions are planned at various theatres across the country and in Israel and Brazil. His upcoming adaptation projects include A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage: A Mark Twain Musical Melodrama, for which he wrote the book and lyrics, that will premiere at the Delaware Theatre Company and Round House Theatre this spring; the first-ever adaptation of the classic American novel Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey, and My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok, which is a commission of the Arden. Other awards and honors include a Barrymore Award for his direction for A Midsummer Night’s Dream, also at the Arden; two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Playwriting Fellowships, and an Eisenhower Fellowship which took him all across Eastern Europe in the summer of 2001. Mr. Posner is originally from Eugene, Oregon and graduated from Northwestern University.
William Bloodgood (Scenic Designer) returns to ATC for his fourthproduction, having last designed scenery for Blues for an Alabama Sky in 1999. He is resident scenic designer with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, where in 29 seasons he has designed over 150 productions. He has designed over 60 productions for regional theatres including Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Childrens’ Theatre Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, The Old Globe, Portland Center Stage, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage and Studio Arena Theatre. He has complemented his work in theatre with experience in interior design, space planning, display and graphic design.
Sam Fleming (Costume Designer) previously designed Permanent Collection, A Streetcar Named Desire, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Wit and Proof for ATC. Her costume designs have been seen at theatres across the country including the Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera (world premiere of Dead Man Walking, with the international premier at State Opera South Australia), Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Playmaker’s Repertory Company, Hartford Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Studio Arena Theatre, Center Stage, StageWest, Houston Opera Studio, Skylight Opera Theatre, Texas Opera Theatre, ACT Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival and Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Craig Lucas’s award-winning Reckless). She designed over 50 productions for Milwaukee Repertory Theater during her 14 years with the company. Ms. Fleming received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for her designs for the Dr. Seuss-inspired A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Westwood Playhouse. Off-Broadway, she designed the new musical Prince and the Pauper, and has worked with the Pearl Theatre, Manhattan Class Company and Womens’ Project Productions at American Place Theatre. She is the associate costume designer for The Phantom of the Opera on Broadway.
Rick Paulsen (Lighting Designer) is pleased to return to ATC, having designed lighting for Macbeth last season. Previously at ATC, he designed lighting for Copenhagen, The Drawer Boy, Fully Committed, Inventing van Gogh, Master Class, Rocket Man, The Illusion, Privates Eyes, Dancing at Lughnasa and Minor Demons. He also designed Still Life with Iris for Childsplay, Inc., which played in repertory with Rocket Man. His work has appeared in Cleveland, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Chicago, San Jose, Denver, Ashland and Portland. Recent work includes Vincent at Brixton at ACT Theatre, The Chosen at Seattle Repertory Theatre, Black Nativity at Intiman Theatre and The Red Badgeof Courage, Secret Garden and A Year with Frog and Toad for Seattle Children’s Theatre.
Brian Jerome Peterson (Resident Sound Designer) celebrates his 20th season and 47th sound design for ATC, where he has designed, among others, Macbeth, Permanent Collection, The Pirates of Penzance, The Immigrant, The Underpants, A Streetcar Named Desire, Oh Coward!, Over the Moon, Copenhagen, The Drawer Boy, Dirty Blonde, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Much Ado About Nothing, Fully Committed, Proof, 2 Pianos, 4 Hands, The Mystery of Irma Vep (for which he won an ariZoni Award), Loot, The Road to Mecca, and the world premieres of Inventing van Gogh, Rocket Man, Minor Demons, and The Holy Terror. His designs have been heard in many theatres including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Mirada Theater, Virginia Stage Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, The Cleveland Play House, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Northlight Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, and San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Peterson has produced for several music groups, including Cuerpos Sin Sombra, The Trade, Eye Pennies, and The Hillwilliams.
Glenn Bruner (Production Stage Manager) begins his eighth season at ATC where he has stage managed, among many others, 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 Rocket Man, Inventing van Gogh, and Over the Moon. A stage manager since 1985, Mr. Bruner has worked at Missouri Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, The Pasadena Playhouse, Center Stage, Studio Arena Theatre, Maine’s Portland Stage Company and Casa Maņana Musicals in Fort Worth. He was the ASM 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.


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