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The Importance Of Being Earnest Cast Biographies:
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Peter Hall (Director) In 2003, Peter Hall celebrated 50 years as a director. He made his debut at Windsor in 1953 and was Director of the Oxford Playhouse l954-55. He ran the Arts Theatre London 1954-59 where his productions included the English language premiere of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
In the l957-59 seasons he was at Stratford on Avon where his productions included Cymbeline with Peggy Ashcroft, Coriolanus with Laurence Olivier and Edith Evans, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Charles Laughton.
Peter Hall created the Royal Shakespeare Company in l960 and opened the RSC’s first London home at the Aldwych Theatre. Productions for the RSC included The Wars of the Roses, David Warner’s Hamlet; The Government Inspector with Paul Scofield and premieres of plays by Pinter (The Homecoming and Old Times), Albee and Simon Gray.
He became Director of the Royal National Theatre in l973, spending l5 years with the Company and moving it into the new theatres on the South Bank. Prominent productions for the NT included Pinter’s No Man’s Land (with John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson); Tamburlaine the Great with Albert Finney, Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn, Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus with Paul Scofield; Aeschylus’ Oresteia; and Antony and Cleopatra with Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins. In 2002 he returned to the RNT with an acclaimed production of Euripides’ Bacchai which was also seen on tour in the UK and at the Athens Festival in Epidaurus.
He has directed at many of the world’s leading opera houses including the Royal Opera House, The Metropolitan Opera, Bayreuth (a celebrated production of Wagner’s Ring Cycle), Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera and Geneva. From l984-90 he was Artistic Director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, producing some twenty operas.
In 1988 he launched the Peter Hall Company with productions of Orpheus Descending with Vanessa Redgrave and The Merchant of Venice with Dustin Hoffman. The Company has mounted more than 40 productions in London, New York, Europe and Australia including a landmark season at the Old Vic including Waiting for Godot, Waste and The Seagull. Recent productions have included The Royal Family starring Judi Dench, Lady Windermere’s Fan starring Vanessa Redgrave and Joely Richardson, Mrs Warren’s Profession with Brenda Blethyn, Richard Johnson and Rebecca Hall, Whose Life is it Anyway starring Kim Cattrall, and The Dresser starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and Julian Glover.
In 2003 the Peter Hall Company gave its first Summer Residency at the Theatre Royal Bath where productions included Pinter’s Betrayal, Coward’s Design for Living, a rare DH Lawrence, The Fight for Barbara, (directed by Thea Sharrock), Shakespeare’s As You Like It, and Manfridi’s Cuckoos in an English version by Colin Teevan. Betrayal transferred to the Duchess Theatre, and As You Like It was seen on an acclaimed 9 week tour of the USA. Also in 2003 Peter Hall directed a new production of Beckett’s Happy Days starring Felicity Kendal at the Arts Theatre.
In 2004 the Peter Hall Company returned again to Bath for another Summer Residency. The season included the rarely seen full-length version of Shaw’s Man and Superman, and the world premiere of Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Galileo’s Daughter. The 2005 Peter Hall Company Summer Residency included acclaimed new productions of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing; Shaw’s You Never Can Tell (currently playing in the West End at the Garrick Theatre) and the 50th Anniversary celebratory production of Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.
In 2003 Peter Hall was appointed Director of Rose of Kingston, a new theatre in Kingston upon Thames. In December 2004 he directed an inaugural season which included his production of As You Like It with Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens, Michael Siberry and Philip Voss. This production then toured to the USA visiting New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Peter Hall has directed regularly in America since l957. Recent productions there include John Guare’s Four Baboons Adoring the Sun; two productions of Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus;the formation of a Shakespeare Company in Los Angeles where productions between 1999-2001 included Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet, as well as a new production of Troilus and Cressida for TFANA in New York also in 2001. His celebrated production of John Barton’s ten hour epic Tantalus was premiered by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts in association with the RSC in 2001 prior to a season at the Barbican in 2002.Peter Hall has directed more than 300 major theatre productions including 30 of Shakespeare’s plays, and premieres of plays by Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter (nine world premieres), Tennessee Williams, Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, Peter Shaffer, John Mortimer, John Whiting, Simon Gray, David Edgar and Alan Ayckbourn.
His upcoming productions in 2006 include Coward’s Hay Fever starring Judi Dench; Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure and Alan Bennett’s Habeas Corpus both of which will be seen at the Theatre Royal Bath.
A recipient of many arts awards and nominations including two Tony Awards (for The Homecoming and for Amadeus) and an Olivier Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1999, Peter Hall was Knighted in l977 for his services to the British Theatre.
Other recent Awards include the New York Shakespeare Medal and Membership of the Athens Academy in Greece for his outstanding contribution to Greek Classical Drama. In January, Peter Hall is to be inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame in New York in recognition of his Lifetime Service to the theatre.
Peter Hall’s films for cinema and TV include “Work is a Four Letter Word” (1968), “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” (1969), “Three into Two Won’t Go” (1969), “Perfect Friday” (1971), “The Homecoming” (1973), “Akenfield” (1974 and in November 2004 given a special 30th Anniversary showing at the NFT), “She’s Been Away” (1989), “Orpheus Descending” (1990), “The Camomile Lawn” (1991), “The Final Passage” (1996).
His books include “Peter Hall’s Diaries” (1983); “Making an Exhibition of Myself” (l993); “The Necessary Theatre” (1999) and “Exposed by the Mask” (2000). His latest book, “Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players” published in America by TCG was recently issued in paperback.
Peter Hall is Chancellor of Kingston University and lectures regularly on theatre both in the UK and abroad.
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Trish Rigdon (Associate Director/Producer/Production Designer) Ms. Rigdon’s work with the Peter Hall Company as Associate Director includes Much Ado About Nothing, and You Never Can Tell (West End), Man and Superman and Galileo’s Daughter, As You Like It (The Rose at Kingston and U.S. tour). Credits as Director include Breakfast at Eight, LaLlorna (Express Theatre, Houston); The Laramie Project, Antigone, Spike Heels (Rice University, Houston); as Assistant Director: 2003 production of As You Like It (Peter Hall Company, Theatre Royal Bath, UK tour, and U.S. tour); Romeo and Juliet (with Sir Peter Hall, Ahmanson, Los Angeles); Romeo and Juliet (Houston Shakespeare Festival); God’s Man in Texas (Stages Repertory, Houston). As Lighting Designer, theatre and dance includes: Texas Contemporary Dance Initiative, City Dance Company (Miller, Houston 2000 - 2005), Chrysalis Dance. As Costume Designer theatre and dance includes Waiting for Godot, Much Ado About Nothing, Man and Superman, Galilieo’s Daughter, Don Juan (Peter Hall Company, Theatre Royal Bath); Open House/Open Book (Rice University with Choreographer Stephen Koplowitz); Chrysalis Dance Company. As Assistant Lighting Designer, theatre includes: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Broadway, Barbican, and Steppenwolf, Chicago); American Buffalo (Off-Broadway, Donmar Warehouse); Topdog/Underdog (Steppenwolf Theatre/Alley Theatre co-production Houston and Dallas); The Goat, Of Mice and Men, As Bees in Honey Drown, Comedy of Errors (Alley Theatre, Houston); Lemonade (Alley, Houston, Off-Broadway). Mrs. Rigdon holds a Master of Fine Arts in Theatre from University of Houston and is the Director of Theatre at Rice University, Houston where she teaches Acting, Directing, and Design.
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Kevin Rigdon (Production Designer) credits include the Peter Hall Company productions of You Never Can Tell, Waiting For Godot, Much Ado About Nothing, Galileo’s Daughter, Man and Superman, and Don Juan. On Broadway his credits include One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Old Neighborhood, Buried Child, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, The Song of Jacob Zulu, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath, Speed the Plow, Our Town, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Caretaker and Ghetto. Off-Broadway Mr. Rigdon has designed Distant Fires, Unidentified Human Remains and the True Nature of Love, Orphans, Lemonade, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, American Buffalo, Oleanna, Edmond, Danger/Memory, Prairie Du Chein and The Shawl. Road: Landscape of the Body, Balm in Gilead And a Nightingale Sang..., and True West. He was the resident designer for Steppenwolf Theatre from 1976 to 1997 during which he designed the scenery, costumes, and lighting for more than 110 productions. He is currently the Associate Director/Design for Houston’s Alley Theatre where he has designed 50 productions. Other theatre credits include productions for The Old Vic, The Royal National Theatre, The Barbican, The Mark Taper Forum, The Kennedy Center, American Repertory Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse In The Park, The Cleveland Playhouse, The Virginia Museum Theatre, Old Globe Theatre, The Goodman Theatre, The Ford’s Theatre, The Festival of Perth, The Festival of Sydney, The Cameri Theatre of Tel-Aviv. Mr. Rigdon is the recipient of two Tony Award nominations, seven Joseph Jefferson Awards, two American Theatre Wing Design Awards, and the Drama-Logue Award. Mr. Rigdon is Professor of Design at the University of Houston.
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Rob Milburn & Michael Bodeen (Sound Designers) Broadway credits include music composition and sound for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and The Speed of Darkness, music for My Thing of Love and sound for A Year with Frog and Toad, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Hollywood Arms, King Hedley II, Buried Child, The Song of Jacob Zulu and The Grapes of Wrath. Off Broadway credits include music and sound for Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space and Marvin’s Room. They have created music and sound at many of America’s resident theatres (often with Chicago’s Goodman and Steppenwolf Theatres), the Comedy Theatre in London’s West End, The Barbican Center, the National Theatre of Great Britain, the Cameri Theatre in Tel Aviv, the Subaru Acting Company in Japan, and festivals in Toronto, Dublin, Galway, Perth and Sydney.
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Deborah Brown (Casting) has cast for Broadway, off-Broadway and many of the leading regional theaters in the country. Currently casting director for Theatre For a New Audience in New York and the Westport Country Playhouse. Shared an Emmy Award for HBO’s series “From the Earth to the Moon.” Other television projects include “The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd” and New York casting on “Band of Brothers.”
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John McNamara (Production Stage Manager) was the Production Stage Manager for Peter Hall’s acclaimed production of As You Like It and for last year’s U.S. tour of the Abbey Theatre’s centenary production of The Playboy of the Western World. Broadway: Riverdance on Broadway, Wizard of Oz, Fosse, Camelot, Shimada, Welcome to the Club and Teddy and Alice. On Tour: Bubblin’ Brown Sugar, West Side Story, and Ain’t Misbehavin’. Five years as resident Stage Manager at Westchester Broadway Theatre. Production Supervisor for the transfer of Woman in Black from the West End for its U.S. Premiere.
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Brian J. L’Ecuyer (Company Manager/Assistant Stage Manager) just completed the U.S./Japan tour of the critically acclaimed Deaf West production of Big River. Other stage management credits include: Edgar Allan Poe – Once Upon A Midnight (w/John Astin; national/international touring productions); Doctor Dolittle, Baby (recent Paper Mill production); Jerry’s Girls, What The Butler Saw; Follies; Assassins; and numerous Shakespeare classics. With many thanks to family, friends, Susan, Debbie and Steve for their encouragement, help and support!
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Lynn Redgrave (Lady Bracknell) was born in London into a family of actors. Stage debut: Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1962). Founding member of The Royal National Theatre. West End: Three Sisters (with sister Vanessa), Noises Off. Broadway: Black Comedy, My Fat Friend, Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Tony nomination), Aren’t We All, Moon Over Buffalo and Strike up the Band. Author of Shakespeare for My Father (Tony nomination), also national and world tours. Off-Broadway: Miss Fozzard in Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads (Drama Desk, Obie and Outer Critics Circle Awards); The Exonerated (also National Tour). Sondheim Celebration production of Company at the Kennedy Center. Film: debut in “Tom Jones” (1963); “Georgy Girl” (1966 Oscar nomination, Golden Globe, N.Y. Film Critics awards); “Gods and Monsters” (1999 Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Oscar nomination); “Shine” (BAFTA and SAG nominations); PJ Hogan’s “Peter Pan”; “Kinsey,” written and directed by Bill Condon (OutFest Award), among many other credits. Most recent film: Merchant/Ivory’s “The White Countess” (with Vanessa and niece Natasha Richardson). Most recent stage: The Constant Wife on Broadway. Twice Emmy nominated. Member of Equity since 1967. Ms. Redgrave has also written the text for “Journal, A Mother and Daughter’s Recovery From Breast Cancer,” featuring photographs by her daughter, Annabel Clark, currently in its third printing from Umbrage Editions.
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Miriam Margolyes (Miss Prism) is one of Britain’s best-loved and busiest character actresses working on both sides of the Atlantic. Born in Oxford and educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, she started her professional life on BBC Radio and from there graduated to theatre, television and films. In the West End, she was first seen in The Threepenny Opera (with Vanessa Redgrave), in Orpheus Descending and She Stoops To Conquer (both for Sir Peter Hall) and The Killing of Sister George. In Los Angeles, she was the Nurse in Sir Peter Hall’s production of Romeo and Juliet, which she had previously filmed with Baz Luhrmann in Mexico. In Australia, she was Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit and Lady Wishfort in The Way of the World. Her one-woman show, Dickens’ Women in which she plays 23 characters from Charles Dickens’ novels, was nominated for an Olivier Award and has been presented in Edinburgh, New Delhi, Sydney, Jerusalem and Johannesburg. Her film career blossomed after her appearance in “Little Dorrit” which won her a Best Supporting award from the L.A. Critics’ Circle. She then appeared in “Yentl,” “Pacific Heights,” “End of Days,” “Magnolia,” “Sunshine” and “James and the Giant Peach,” and won a Best Supporting BAFTA for “The Age of Innocence” (for Martin Scorsese). Most recently, she was Professor Sprout in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,” Peter Seller’s mother in “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers” (with Geoffrey Rush), Dorcas in “Ladies in Lavender” (with Dames Judi Dench and Maggie Smith) and Dolly in “Being Julia” with Annette Bening. She was the voice of Fly in “Babe” and The Matchmaker in “Mulan” and her work in audio recordings has won many awards. In 2002, she was awarded the O.B.E. for her services to Drama.
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Terence Rigby (Reverend Chasuble) Film work includes: “Mona Lisa Smile,” “Accident,” “Get Carter,” “Elizabeth,” “Dogs of War,” “Tomorrow Never Dies,” “The Young Americans,” “Mrs. Cauldicotts Cabbage War” and due for release in Paris 2006, “Colour Me Kubrick” with John Malkovich (directed by Brian Cook). Has recently played Pozzo in Waiting for Godot, Davies in The Caretaker at the Old Vic in Bristol, David Hare’s Skylight in Chester, MA, Pinter’s The Birthday Party at ART Harvard and filmed with Julia Roberts in “Mona Lisa Smile” in New England and Maryland. Further work in the USA includes: premiers of Pinter’s plays The Homecoming, No Man’s Land, both on Broadway directed by Sir Peter Hall, also on Broadway, Hamlet with Ralph Fiennes and Amadeus, as well as, in New York, Richard III with Ian McKellen, Saved by Edward Bond, Troilus and Cressida, Smelling a Rat an early Mike Leigh play – and at Seattle The Last True Believer by Robert W. Sherwood. Television is dominated by “Softly Softly,” “The Biederbeck Series,” “Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy,” “Born to Run” with Billie Whitelaw, “Great Expectations” and “Who Bombed Birmingham?” Trained at RADA, his first job was Anthony and Cleopatra at the Old Birmingham Rep directed by Bernard Hepton. His later work in Dublin included performances directed by Vincent Dowling, Jack Dowling and John Franklyn. Seasons at the RSC, National Theatre and London’s West End followed and included Henry V, The Cherry Orchard, Plunder, State of Revolution, Man Beast and Virtue, Man and Superman, Bajazet, The Wild Duck, Macbeth, The Man Himself.
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Bianca Amato (Gwendolen Fairfax) Bianca migrated from South Africa to the United States in 2002. Theater: New York–Off-Broadway: Mr. Fox: A Rumination (with Bill Irwin), Signature Theater; Glance At New York, Lincoln Center Directors Lab. Minneapolis: The Guthrie Theater: As You Like It (Rosalind, Dir. Joe Dowling), Pygmalion (Eliza Doolittle), Pride And Prejudice (Elizabeth Bennet), Topgirls (Marlene). South Africa: Theater on the Bay: Proof (Catherine). The Baxter Theater: Kindertransport; Greek (Fleur Du Cap award), A Doll’s House; Under Milkwood (Vita award). Film/Television: “Sex and The City,” “The Adventures of Sinbad” (U.S./Canada), “Gegen Den Wind” (Germany), “Isidingo - The Need” (South Africa’s leading television series - Principal.), “A Fatal Game.” Training: Performer’s Diploma in Speech and Drama (with Distinction), University Of Cape Town, South Africa.
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Charlotte Parry (Cecily Cardew) made her American debut in the highly-acclaimed Broadway revival of Stoppard’s The Real Thing, playing Debbie opposite Jennifer Ehle and Stephen Dillane. The production won 3 Tony awards. She returned to this country last season as Phebe in Peter Hall’s production of As You Like It, which performed at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, toured the United States, and played the Brooklyn Academy of Music to rave reviews from the New York critics. Among her other major roles have been Eleanor in Northanger Abbey and Constanze in Amadeus at the Theater Royal, York, Nina in The Seagull at the Theater Royal Norwich, Kitty in a National Tour of Charley’s Aunt, Irina in a tour of The Three Sisters, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Sally in Follies, Swallow in Whistle Down The Wind and Madame De Tourvel in Les Liaisons Dangereuses. She has appeared on British television in “The Safe House,” and most recently “Extreme Ghost Stories” and in film in “The Park Bench.” Ms.Parry trained at LAMDA (post-graduate) and at the National Youth Theatre and National Youth Music Theatre of Great Britain.
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Robert Petkoff (Algernon Moncrieff) Broadway: Fiddler On The Roof with Alfred Molina (directed by David Leveaux), Perchik; Epic Proportions (directed by Jerry Zaks). London’s West End: The Royal Family with Judi Dench (directed by Sir Peter Hall). Off-Broadway: Avow and More Stately Mansions (directed by Ivo van Hove) which also played at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. Regional: The roles of Achilles, Neoptolemus, Aegisthus and Orestes in Sir Peter Hall’s production of John Barton’s Tantalus with The Denver Center Theatre Company and The Royal Shakespeare Company. Other credits: Title roles in Sunday In The Park With George (After Dark award for Principal Role in a Musical), Hamlet, Romeo And Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, and Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Robby Award for Best Actor in a Play). Regionally Robert has played at Mark Taper Forum, The Old Globe Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre in D.C., The Hartford Stage, and The Chicago Shakespeare Theatre among others. Robert received a Joseph Jefferson nomination for his most recent work in Chicago as Mercutio in Mark Lamos’ production of Romeo and Juliet. Film: “Milk and Money,” “Gameday,” “Vice Versa” and “Loverboy.” Television: “Chapelle’s Show” (Comedy Central), “Law & Order” (NBC), “Hack” (CBS), “Quantum Leap” (NBC), “Married…With Children” (FOX), the TV pilot “Mona” and the role of young Liberace in the movie of the week “Liberace” (ABC).
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James Waterston (Jack Worthing) New York theater includes: As You Like It (directed by Mark Lamos), New York Shakespeare Festival; Ashley Montana Goes Ashore in the Caicos (directed by Jim Simpson), The Flea; Another Time (AJT, with Malcolm McDowell and Marian Seldes). Regional theater includes: Julius Caesar (directed by Daniel Sullivan), Old Globe Theater; Twelfth Night (directed by Jack O’Brien), Old Globe Theater; Proof (West Coast premiere production, South Coast Rep.); Arcadia, Our Town, The Seagull, Ah, Wilderness!, Long Day’s Journey Into Night (with father Sam Waterston) and three seasons with the Williamstown Theater Festival’s Greylock Project. Film and television credits include: “Six Feet Under” (recurring), “Live From Baghdad,” “Dead Poets Society,” “ER.” James is a founding member of the Malaparte Theater Company and enjoys playing New Orleans piano.
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Geddeth Smith (Merriman / Understudy: Reverend Chasuble, Lane) Broadway: Waiting in the Wings, Alice in Wonderland, The Imaginary Invalid, Tonight at 8:30, and A Touch of the Poet. Road: Player King in Hamlet (Woodfall-Twain production with Nicol Williamson), Davison in Mary Stuart (Tyrone Guthrie production with Eva LeGallienne and Signe Hasso). Off-Broadway: The Shaughraun; Shadow of a Gunman; recently Ben Burton in Philadelphia, Here I Come, Irish Repertory Theatre. Regional: Matt Hafigan in John Bull’s Other Island, Geva Theatre Center; Boltzman in Restoring the Sun (World Premiere), Cleveland Playhouse, Elder Piper in The Sons of Ulster, Huntington Theatre Company; also Hartford Stage Company, Walnut Street Theatre, and others. Over fifty roles in Shakespeare’s plays, recently John of Gaunt in Richard II at Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. Television: “Man Without a Country,” “Milligan,” “Blue Hotel” and others. Affiliate Artist, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, author of two biographies of nineteenth-century actors, “The Brief Career of Eliza Poe” and “Thomas Abthorpe Cooper, America’s Premier Tragedian.”
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James A. Stephens (Lane) is a native of the UK and has lived in the US for the last 22 years. He was last seen on stage in New York as Master Boyle in the recently acclaimed production of Philadelphia, Here I Come. He has appeared on Broadway in Neil Simon’s 45 Seconds From Broadway, and in Alan Ayckbourn’s House and Garden at the Manhattan Theatre Club. In London he has appeared at the Old Vic and Prospect Theatre companies, The National Theatre, London’s West End and many of Britain’s repertory theatres. In musicals he played The Doctor in The Broadway International tour of Grand Hotel. Off Broadway credits include: God Hates the Irish (musical comedy) The Country Boy, Don Juan in Hell, The Hostage and Peg O My Heart. Regional theatre credits - Malcolm in Ten Unknowns (John Robin Baitz), George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Captain Scott in Terra Nova, Pastor Manders in Ghosts and Owen in the American premier of Michael Frayn’s Clouds. Television credits include “Law & Order,” “Another World,” “General Hospital” and “All My Children.” Film: “Descent” (2006), “Little Black Dress” (2005), “Britannia Hospital” (Lindsey Anderson), and “The Hard Way” (John Boorman Production).
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Greg Felden (Footman / Understudy: Algernon Moncrieff, Jack Worthing, Merriman) Regional: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (directed by Mark Lamos), The Shakespeare Theater, Washington, DC; Wilfred Owen in Not About Heros, Playmakers Repertory Theatre; Rough Magic, The Hangar Theatre. New York: Golden Age, The Kraine; Say You Love Satan, New York Fringe Festival 2003, Naked Will, PS 122. Greg’s original, one-man show, State of the Union, premiered in August at The American Living Room Festival at HERE. Yale: Zanna, Don’t!, The Merchant of Venice, The Rocky Horror Show, Macbeth, Sincerity Forever. Awards: New York Fringe Festival 2004: Excellence in Directing for Rolin Jones’ The Jammer. Training: Yale School of Drama, MFA.
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Margaret Daly (Understudy: Lady Bracknell, Miss Prism) Regional: The Time of Your Life, A Mother (world premiere), Juno and the Paycock, A Christmas Carol (American Conservatory Theatre); The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, She Stoops to Conquer, The Sea Gull, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare Santa Cruz); The House of Blue Leaves, Rhinoceros (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Present Laughter, Hedda Gabler (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Hay Fever, Eleemosynary, The Golden Age, Relative Values (The Chamber Theater); Spinning Into Butter (TheatreWorks); Kissing the Witch (Magic Theatre); and others. Television: “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Nash Bridges.”
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Diane Landers (Understudy: Gwendolen Fairfax, Cecily Cardew) New York credits: GIRL (directed by Chris McGarry), NY Fringe/LAByrinth Theater Co.; Prince Hal (directed by Elysabeth Kleinhans), Primary Stages/45th Street Theater; Bodega Lung Fat by Mike Batistick (directed by Jo Bonney ), The Public Theater/New Work Now!; Third Floor, Second Door on the Right with Allan Arbus (directed by Arin Arbus), Cherry Lane/NY Fringe; Macbeth (directed by Kevin Moriarty); Beckett’s Company, Rude Mechanicals; Port Authority Throwdown by Mike Batistick (directed by Arin Arbus), HERE; Ars Nova (directed by Michael John Garces). Television: “ED” (NBC). Diane is a graduate of Fordham University.
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Theatre Royal Bath Widely considered to be one of the most beautiful theatres in Britain, the Theatre Royal Bath has enjoyed an illustrious history. In 1768 the original playhouse was granted a Royal Patent to become the first theatre outside London to be called ‘Royal’. The current theatre opened in 1805 just nine days before the Battle of Trafalgar. When much of the original exterior was destroyed by fire in 1862 an architectural competition was held to choose a new design. The winner was a young Bathonian, C. J. Phipps, who went on to become the leading theatre designer of the late Victorian period.
Theatre Royal Bath is one of the most successful theatres in Britain with many productions visiting Bath either directly from or immediately prior to a London West End run. The addition of the Ustinov Studio in 1997 and The Egg – a theatre for children and young people - in 2005 hugely extended the Theatre’s repertoire.
In addition to its weekly productions, the Theatre Royal Bath presents a range of celebrated Festivals: The Bath Shakespeare Festival; The Bath International Puppet Festival, Britain’s biggest celebration of the art of adult puppetry and The Wild and Wacky Festival of Theatre for Children. In the Summers of 003, 2004, 2005 the Peter Hall Company presented an acclaimed season of plays at the Theatre Royal Bath. A further Summer season is being planned for 2006.
In 1998 Theatre Royal Bath Productions was formed to create high quality drama for the Theatre Royal, to tour it to other regional theatres, and to transfer it to the West End. West End credits include Harold Pinter’s The Birthday Party (Piccadilly Theatre), Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane (Arts Theatre), Ron Hutchinson’s The Beau (Theatre Royal Haymarket), David Williamson’s Up For Grabs (Wyndham’s Theatre), Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party (New Ambassadors/Whitehall Theatre), Shakespeare’s R & J (Arts Theatre), Harold Pinter’s Betrayal (Duchess Theatre), Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days (Arts Theatre), Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Savoy Theatre), Ronald Harwood’s The Dresser (Duke of York’s Theatre) and Bernard Shaw’s You Never Can Tell (Garrick Theatre).
In 2003 the Theatre Royal Bath/Peter Hall Company’s acclaimed production of Shakespeare’s As You Like It played in New Haven, Columbus and Boston. As You Like It returned to the U.S. in 2004 for a 16 week tour performing at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
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