FELICITY LA FORTUNE (Lane) recently appeared in Tom Stoppard’s three-part Russian epic The Coast of Utopia and Adam Guettel’s The Light in the Piazza, both at Lincoln Center Theater. Her Broadway appearances include The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?; Sex and Longing and A Month of Sundays. Off-Broadway, she has been seen in Dinner With Friends, The Exception and the Rule (directed by Jerome Robbins) and All My Sons (directed by Jose Ferrer). Ms. La Fortune’s regional appearances include A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur and A Picasso. She has sung with the Santa Fe Opera and Orchestre National de Lyon. Her television work includes appearances in The Sopranos, Sex in the City, Law & Order and seven years on the soaps Ryan’s Hope and All My Children.

KATE GOEHRING (Virginia) returns to ATC where she appeared as Lil Bit in How I Learned to Drive and in Work Song: Three Views of Frank Lloyd Wright.   Ms. Goehring played Harper in the national tour of Angels In America (LA Pride/Carbonel Awards). Off-Broadway, she was seen in Carrie: A Period Piece at P.S. 122 and Laughing Wild at Bailiwick Repertory Theatre (After Dark/Jeff Awards). Her regional appearances include Heartbreak House at Intiman Theatre; Orpheus Descending at Arena Stage; The Cherry Orchard at McCarter Theatre Center; The Rover and Dancing at Lughnasa  at Goodman Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, Aristocrats and Mrs. Warren’s Profession at Huntington Theatre Company; Collected Stories at ACT Theatre (Seattle Footlights Award); The Syringa Tree, Saint Joan and Machinal  at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Measure for Measure at Court Theatre. Ms. Goehring’s film and television appearances include Swimmers, March in Windy City, Stella, ER, The Untouchables, and Law & Order (the original, CI and SVU).

BERNARD BURAK SHEREDY (Charles) appeared Off-Broadway in Dinah Was and Waiting for Lefty (directed by Joanne Woodward). His regional theatre work includes Pericles and Lorenzaccio with Shakespeare Theatre Company, Thief River at Guthrie Theater, Shakespeare in Hollywood at Wilma Theater, The Cherry Orchard with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, and Eliot Ness in Cleveland at Denver Center Theatre Company. Mr. Sheredy created the title role of Walter in Actors Studio’s The Woodsman, which inspired the 2004 feature film starring Kevin Bacon. His film work includes House of D, Meet the Parents, Outside Providence, The Fish in the Bathtub, Quiz Showand Liebestraum (directed by Mike Figgis). Mr. Sheredy’s television appearances include guest roles and leads on several episodics including mobster Georgy Malenkov on Law & Order. Mr. Sheredy received his MFA from Yale Drama School.

ALEXANDRA TAVARES (Matilde) has appeared as Janice in Italian American Reconciliation at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Irina in Three Sisters and Ellie in Heartbreak House at Intiman Theatre and Medea in Jason and the Golden Fleece at Seattle Children's Theatre. Other regional theatre work includes The Comedy of Errors and Much Ado About Nothing at Seattle Shakespeare Company, Little Women at Book-It Repertory Theatre and Crumbs Are Also Bread and Swimming in the Shallows at Washington Ensemble Theatre.  Ms. Tavares holds an MFA in Acting from University of Washington's Professional Actors Training Program. She is also an associate member of Washington Ensemble Theatre in Seattle.

RAE C WRIGHT (Ana) is an Obie-winning performer/writer of She's Just Away! (a comedy about grieving), Animal Instincts: Tales of Flesh & Tales of Blood, My Mad Brother, The Moon in Vain (a fifth act to Chekhov’s The Seagull)and Vicki Weaver & I.... She also shares a Jane Chambers Playwriting Award with Deb Margolin for The Breaks (The Culture Project). She’s the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, and has performed and directed at The Public Theater. She has appeared Off-Broadway as Arkadina in The Seagull. Her regional theatre credits include Augusta at Portland Stage Company, Our Town at Triad Stage and The House of Blue Leaves at Two Rivers Theatre Company. Her film work includes Borders and Joe's Apartment. Ms. Wright is a Professor at New York University.

CHARLOTTE BERNHARDT (Ensemble) is a junior in the BFA Acting Program at the University of Arizona.  She was last seen as Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker with the Arizona Repertory Theatre. Other ART credits include the Baroness in Candide and a member of the ensemble in Romeo and Juliet. This summer, she will play Maggie in ART's production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

JULIE MARIE GARRISON (Ensemble) has previously appeared in Arizona Theatre Company's production of Twelfth Night. Julie is currently a senior Acting major at the University of Arizona. She recently played Cherie in Bus Stop at the Arizona Repertory Theatre. Her additional ART credits include Romeo & Juliet, The Philadelphia Story and Henry IV, Parts I & II.

SARAH RUHL (Playwright) is the author of The Clean House (Susan Smith Blackburn Award, 2004; Pulitzer Prize Finalist, 2005; Pen Award), Melancholy Play, Eurydice, Late: A Cowboy Song, Orlando, Demeter in the City (NAACP Image Award nomination), Passion Play, a cycle (Fourth Forum Freedom Award, Kennedy Center) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone, which is currently playing in New York at Playwrights Horizons. Her plays have been performed on Broadway and at Lincoln Center Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Goodman Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, TheWilma Theater, Cornerstone Theater Company, Madison Repertory Theatre, Clubbed Thumb and the Piven Theatre Workshop, among other theatres across the country. Her plays have been translated into German, Polish, Korean, Russian and Spanish, and have been produced internationally in London, Canada, Germany, Latvia, and Poland. Ms. Ruhl received her MFA from Brown University. She is the recipient of a Helen Merrill Award, Whiting Writers' Award, and a MacArthur Genius Fellowship. She is a proud member of New Dramatists and 13P.

JON JORY (Director) returns to ATC where he directed The Underpants, Pride and Prejudice and Twelfth Night.  His adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, which was commissioned and premiered at ATC, has broken house attendance records at several regional theatres. He was Producing Director at Actors Theatre of Louisville from 1969-2000, where he founded the Humana Festival of New American Plays. He has directed on and Off-Broadway and at many regional theatres and is currently Professor of Acting and Directing at University of Washington. Mr. Jory has directed internationally in nine countries and is the recipient of numerous awards, including The Drama League’s Outstanding Contribution to Theatre Award, American Theatre Association’s Award for Distinguished Service to Theatre, the Margo Jones Award twice for the production of new plays and recently the ATA Distinguished Career Award. Most recently, he directed plays at Intiman Theatre and ACT Theatre in Seattle. Next season, he will direct the world premiere of Jane Martin’s Somebody/Nobody at ATC.  Mr. Jory is also working on a new musical for ATC with long time collaborator Peter Ekstrom.

NEIL PATEL (Scenic Designer) designed Ring Of Fire, Sideman and ‘Night Mother on Broadway.  Off-Broadway, he has designed scenery for Some Girls and The Mercy Seat at MCC Theater; Stopping Traffic, The Long Christmas Ride Home, The Argument and After Ashley at Vineyard Theatre; Here Lies Jenny at The Zipper Theater; Dinner With Friends at Variety Arts Theater; Living Out at Second Stage Theatre; Going to St. Ives at Primary Stages; Between Us and Glimmer, Glimmer & Shine at Manhattan Theatre Club; A Question of Mercy, Bob, Quills, Slavs!, Score and Unmade Bed at New York Theatre Workshop; and Lobster Alice and On The Mountain at Playwrights Horizons.  Other New York theatre designs include McReele at Roundabout Theatre Company and Dirty Tricks and Othello at The Public Theater. Mr. Patel’s opera credits include Alcina at New York City Opera, Carmen at Santa Fe Opera, Gloriana at Opera Theater St. Louis and Madam Mao at Santa Fe Opera. Mr. Patel received a 2000 Eddy Award; 1996, 2000, 2003 Drama Desk Nominations; and 1996 and 2001 Obie Awards for Sustained Excellence.

LORRAINE VENBERG (Costume Designer) returns to ATC where she designed last season’s Love, Janis. At Actors Theatre of Louisville, she has designed many productions, including Spunk, The Underpants, Dracula, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, 9 Parts of Desire, Mary’s Wedding, The Chosen, Gem of the Ocean, Intimate Apparel, The Crucible, Twelfth Night and Love, Janis (also Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and The Cleveland Play House). Other regional credits include Victory Gardens Theater, Arden Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Pittsburgh Public Theater, and City Theatre.

BRIAN J. LILIENTHAL (Lighting Designer) is the Resident Lighting Designer at Actors Theatre of Louisville where he designed Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Underpants, Spunk, Gem of the Ocean, The Chosen, Mary’s Wedding, The Unseen, Batch, dark play or stories for boys, among others. His designs have also been seen at Trinity Repertory Company, Arden Theatre Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre, Perishable Theatre, Sledgehammer Theatre, The Evidence Room, La Mama Experimental Theatre, InterAct Theatre, Pig Iron Theatre Company, New Paradise Laboratories, and the National Playwrights Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Center (Resident Designer). Mr. Lilienthal’s opera credits include Bard Summerscape, Long Beach Opera, Portland Opera Repertory Theatre and Boston Academy of Music. He holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts.

MATT CALLAHAN (Sound Designer) designed sound for Actors Theatre of Louisville’s productions of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, dark play or stories for boys, The Unseen, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Mary’s Wedding, The Chosen, My Fair Lady, The Scene, among others. He recently designed Orson’s Shadow at Philadelphia Theatre Company and was in residence at The Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference. Mr. Callahan has served as Audio Engineer for Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Assistant Engineer for The Blue Man Group and was a member of Defiant Theatre.

ILSE APÉSTEGUI (Music Coach/Spanish Tutor) is a Costa Rican singer, actor and teacher.  She holds a BA and an MA in Vocal Performance (University of Idaho, Arizona State University) and studied languages in Finland. She has taught Spanish, chorus and theatre, and has been a voice teacher for over a decade. In December, she sang Meg in Falstaff at the National Theater in Guatemala. She has performed with San Diego Opera, Arizona Opera, Compañía Lírica and Orquesta Sinfónica de Costa Rica, Northwest Indiana Symphony and Phoenix Symphony.

GILLIAN LANE-PLESCIA (Dialect Coach) has coached dialects for productions on and Off-Broadway. Her regional work includes The Acting Company, Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, CENTERSTAGE, McCarter Theatre Center, Goodman Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Trinity Repertory Company, The Wilma Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre and Banff Center for Fine Arts. Ms. Lane-Plescia teaches in the Juilliard School’s Drama Division. Her popular self-teaching dialect CDs for actors are used throughout Canada, England, Australia, Europe and the U.S.

AMY WEGENER (Dramaturg) is the Literary Manager at Actors Theatre of Louisville. Previously, she worked for four seasons as Literary Manager at the Guthrie Theater, where her dramaturgy credits include The Great Gatsby, Blue/Orange, Boats on a River and many workshops and productions of new plays. She worked at Actors Theatre of Louisville from 1997-2003. She has co-edited nine published anthologies, and has frequently worked with The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Ms. Wegener is a graduate of Princeton University and holds an MA from Northwestern University.

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.

GLENN BRUNER (Production Stage Manager)is in his eleventh 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.

BRUNO INGRAM (Assistant Stage Manager) stage managed To Kill a Mockingbird, Ella, Hank Williams: Lost Highway, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Anna in the Tropics, Talley’s Folly and The Underpants for Arizona Theatre Company.He has worked as a Stage Manager for The Cleveland Play House and Theatre for a New Audience on a variety of productions, including Ella, Company, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Touch the Names, Jerusalem, Art, Cymbeline, and Julius Caesar. Mr. Ingram has also worked at Great Lakes Theatre Festival on six productions including A Christmas Carol and Tom Hanks: Now Playing Center.

APRIL JACKSON (Assistant to the Stage Manager) has been Assistant to the Stage Manager on Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Touch the Names, Souvenir and Molly’s Delicious at ATC.  She served as Production Stage Manager for ATC’s Summer on Stage 2007, and stage managed Footloose and Godspell in previous Summer on Stage seasons.She is a recent graduate of the University of Arizona with a BFA in Theatre Education, where her stage management credits included Assistant Stage Manager for Arizona Repertory Theatre’s She Loves Me and Stage Manager for the Educational Theatre Company’s Hey Diddle Diddle! The Rhymes and Riddles of Mother Goose. Ms. Jackson also directed One Naked Woman and a Fully Clothed Man for the University of Arizona School of Theatre Arts’ 2005 One Act Festival.

ACTORS THEATRE OF LOUISVILLE (Co-producer) one of the nation's leading theatres prominent for its presentation of new works, has premiered over 300 new plays since 1976 in its world renowned Humana Festival of New American Plays. These premieres include three Pulitzer Prize winners  — The Gin Game by D. L. Coburn, Crimes of the Heart by Beth Henley and Dinner with Friends by Donald Margulies — as well as Marsha Norman's Getting Out, John Pielmeier's Agnes of God, William Mastrosimone's Extremities, Jane Martin's Keely & Du, Tony Kushner's Slavs! and Charles L. Mee’s Big Love and Hotel Cassiopeia. Actors Theatre has been the recipient of the prestigious Margo Jones Award, the Shubert Foundation's James N. Vaughan Memorial Award, and the 1980 Tony Award for exceptional achievement. During its season, the professional company presents a diverse array of contemporary and classical works.  Previous co-productions with ATC: Crowns.